The police have searched Kyiv-based office of the FEMEN women's rights group to check whether there were weapons and explosives there, the organization said.
A FEMEN press release reads that the police blocked the office and
waited for the arrival of Interior Ministry special detachments.
According to FEMEN, someone called the police and said that there were
weapons and explosives at the organization’s office.
“FEMEN declares that the movement never had weapons, explosives, or drugs,” reads the press release.
The women’s rights group also stated that if any drugs or toxic
substances, banned things or weapons are found at FEMEN’s office, one
should consider it “a provocation by the Ukrainian authorities.”
At the same time, one can see in the pictures posted by the
organization that a gun, a hand grenade, and pictures of Russian
President Vladimir Putin and Patriarch Kirill with crosshairs depicted
on them were found at the office.
In a commentary to the Ukrainska Pravda online publication, the
leader of FEMEN, Hanna Hutsol, said that the police slipped weapons and
provocative pictures into their office.
“They found a gun, bullets, a grenade and pictures of Putin and
Kirill with crosshairs depicted on them. It was to look like we were
preparing an attack on them,” Hutsol said.
She said FEMEN was a peaceful movement.
“We’ve never had weapons and never planned armed attacks. We are not a
terrorist group. We consider these actions as pressure and repression,”
the leader of the movement said.
