The head of the Sviatoshynsky district department of police in Kyiv, Yuriy Hladyk, has been suspended from office during the investigation into the case on the causing of bodily harm by a law enforcer of this department to an activist of the Coalition of Participants in the Orange Revolution (CPOR), the head of the Ukrainian Interior Ministry's main office in Kyiv, Valeriy Koriak, has said.
According to Channel 5, Koriak made such a statement to protesting entrepreneurs of the Shliakh market and activists of the Svoboda Party and CPOR, who stormed the building of the district department of police on the evening of July 12, demanding that they be given the guilty police officer.
He also said that criminal cases would not be opened against the protesters who tore down a fence outside the building of the district department
As reported, a mass brawl involving law enforcement officers and employees of the Shliakh market, as well as activists of Svoboda and the Coalition of Participants in the Orange Revolution, occurred outside the building of the Sviatoshynsky district department of police in Kyiv on the evening of July 12. The protesters were angered by the actions of an employee of the district department who hit a girl from CPOR, because she asked him to speak Ukrainian.
Six police officers were injured in the scuffle. The activists also reported injuries. The protesters knocked down a fence around the building of the district police department and dispersed at around midnight.
