Investigate "hooliganism": military shopping center in Kharkiv was removed from work due to a teacher's beating

To spread: a video has been spread on the network where a serviceman of the district territorial center of acquisition and social support (TCC and JV) in Kharkiv beats a history teacher. Police opened criminal proceedings under the article "Hooliganism", but the suspicion of the Tax Code did not receive the suspicion. This was reported in the press service of the Main Directorate of the National Police in Kharkiv Oblast Correspondent of the Information Agency of Ukrinform.

In a comment to the journalists, a spokeswoman for Kharkiv Regional Shopping Center and Olena Rodina confirmed in a comment to the agency that the man in military uniform on video was an employee of the territorial center and noted that he was removed from work. The department conducts an investigation. "We condemn the behavior of a serviceman, so there should be no happening, whatever they say.

We also understand that he is a serviceman from the front, and he would not do so, although it is, of course, not the norm," the spokeswoman said. According to her, the employee of the Tax Code has the status of a participant of hostilities. In a comment to the information agency, lawyer Roman Likhasov suggested that punishment under the article "Hooliganism" could be softer than society expects. He noted that there will be no criminal proceedings without medical examination and bodily harm.

"About qualification. The police are acting in this way that it does not know that it is about military personnel. As far as I understand," people in military uniform ", that is not even military, but" similar to the military. " It is the representatives of the military enlistment offices, ”Likhachev explained. If it was clearly determined that the offender was a serviceman of the Tax Code, the State Bureau of Investigation should be criminal proceedings, the lawyer added.

According to Likhachev, body cameras could solve the problem of conflicts with the CCC. The head of the information department of the Dergachiv City Council, the friend of the victim Alexander Kulik in turn states that the teacher was beat by the serviceman Sergey V. According to Alexander Kulik, now the TCC employee previously published anti -Ukrainian posts on social networks and spoke.

On May 11, local publications spread a video where the TCC serviceman and JV twice hit the young man dressed in civilian. In the Kharkiv Regional Shopping Center and JV, personnel were commented and stated that the incident occurred through "provocative actions by the citizen", but condemned the use of physical force and pledged to conduct an official investigation. On May 13, Mayor of Kharkiv Igor Terekhov spoke in defense of Kharkiv resident, which was hit by the Tax Code.