Dnipropetrovsk - Police in Dnipropetrovsk are trying to identify a group of individuals who used social networking sites to call for the seizure of the regional state administration building.
Police have launched criminal inquiries on charges of “plotting mass
disturbances accompanied by violence against an individual, arson,
destruction of property, seizure of administrative buildings” and
“public calls for actions jeopardizing public order,” Dnipropetrovsk
police chief Vitaliy Hlukhoveria told a press conference on Monday.
“We put this data in the single register after calls surfaced on
social networking sites to get together outside the Dnipropetrovsk
regional state administration building with the aim of seizing it.
Having analyzed this information, we made relevant entries in the
register and set up a group that will identify those who were calling
for the seizure of the regional state administration,” Hlukhoveria said.
The individuals who are spreading such calls have yet to be identified, he added.
Police have been put on alert and “security tightened at
administrative buildings and busy public places,” the police chief said.
About 20 people wearing St. George’s ribbons came up to the regional
administration building on Monday, an Interfax correspondent said. They
are standing at some distance from the administration; police and Right
Sector activists have deployed just outside the building.
The people with St. George’s ribbons said they are here not to storm
anything but to express their protest against the existing authorities
and declare their friendship with Russia while remaining part of
Ukraine.
