Police have drafted an administrative report against a student who hit Ukrainian Education and Science, Youth and Sports Minister Dmytro Tabachnyk on the face with a bouquet of flowers, the press service of the Ukrainian Interior Ministry's main office in Kyiv has reported.
The press service said that on Sept. 22, 2011, during public events held in the Club of the Cabinet of Ministers, one of its participants "conducted illegal actions" with respect to a minister.
"An administrative report was drafted against this girl under Article 173 of the Ukrainian Code of Administrative Offences. The violator received a summons to arrive in court," the police said.
The press service added that the police had not detained the girl.
Darya Stepanenko, a 17-year-old student of the prestigious Kyiv Mohyla Academy, slapped Tabachnyk on the face with a bunch of flowers at a forum of the education ministers of European countries in the club of the Cabinet of Ministers in Kyiv on Sept. 22.
The teenager came up to Tabachnyk with flowers allegedly intending to present them to him, but instead she struck him in the face with the bouquet.
She told reporters that this was a protest against a ban on holding a student rally on Thursday.
After that, the student got into the car, but law enforcement officers approached her and took her to a police department.
Tabachnyk, in turn, said that he had been unruffled by the incident.
