The pre-trial investigation into the “Euromaidan” case on mass killings has been completed, and the first court session is scheduled for October 5, Ukrainian Prosecutor General Yury Lutsenko has said.
“This is what the society has been waiting for all these years. This is what I was assigned as number one task when I was appointed in parliament. Now I can report – investigators and prosecutors carried out their huge gigantic work, and we think we are ready to charge [former Ukrainian President Viktor] Yanukovych, [former Interior Minister Vitaliy] Zakharchenko, [former Chief of the Ukrainian Security Service Oleksandr] Yakymenko, and a number of other law enforcement officials with giving orders that led to the shooting of peaceful demonstrators on Maidan [Independence Square in Kyiv],” Lutsenko said at a briefing in Kharkiv on October 3.
According to him, the first hearing on the case was scheduled for October 5 at the Pechersky District Court of Kyiv.
“If our application on prosecution in absentia is satisfied, it will be sent in a short time for consideration in essence through a judicial investigation in a respective court,” Lutsenko said.
