You're reading: Poroshenko tells police crime was committed by group of athletic men on Bankova Street

Ukrainian MP Petro Poroshenko has filed an application regarding a crime committed by a group of up to 1,000 unknown young athletic men outside the building of the Presidential Administration on Bankova Street.

He said he had registered this application with the crew of traffic
police officers, Lieutenant Dovzhenko and Senior Police Officer
Herasymenko.

Poroshenko said that the crime contains a provocation, in particular,
the young men drove a digger in order to demolish a fence and create a
dangerous situation on Bankova Street.

He said that people had been prevented from yielding to this provocation.