The Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine (PGO) is verifying information about the shooting of Maidan activists from Hotel Ukraine in February 2014.
“We really are verifying information about a possible shooting from
Hotel Ukraine on Feb. 20, 2014,” chief of the PGO department on
special investigations Serhiy Horbatiuk said at a briefing in Kyiv on Oct.13.
He added that he cannot disclose all the details of the
investigation, however the investigators are verifying reports given by
MPs on the Maidan events.
He said that some offices have been searched as part of the
investigation, in particular the offices of deputy heads of Svoboda
All-Ukrainian Union: former deputy prime minister of Ukraine Oleksandr
Sych, former MP Oleh Pankevych, and head of the party court Ihor Yankiv,
but they haven’t been questioned.
“They were called for questioning on Friday, on Oct. 16. The
investigator is considering the procedure of investigative actions,”
Horbatiuk said.
As reported, on Oct. 12 police searched the apartments of three deputy heads of Svoboda.
Subsequently, assistant to the prosecutor general of Ukraine,
Vladyslav Kutsenko confirmed that the searches are related to the
investigation into the events of Euromaidan in February 2014 and
stressed that Sych, Pankevych and Yankiv are not considered to be
suspects.
Pankevych said that during the search he was shown an original of the
video of events which occurred on Feb. 20, 2014 that were shot from
the window of a hotel room, and a hunting carbine, which was bought
after the events on Maidan.
