MP Boryslav Bereza, chairman of the Verkhovna Rada’s interim investigation commission probing into the murder of an advisor to the mayor of Kherson, civil activist Kateryna Gandziuk, has said the commission’s meeting, which is scheduled to be held in Kherson on Nov. 29, may be undermined and asked the National Police not to allow for any provocations.
The interim investigation commission probing into the attacks on civil activists in Ukraine and the murder of Gandziuk will start working in Kherson on Nov. 29, at 5 p.m.
“At the meeting, we are going to hear the people whose names were mentioned in some way in connection with the Gandziuk case or who may give important testimony. However, it has come to our knowledge that someone very ‘creative’ has decided to edit the commission’s agenda. We have received information from sources with knowledge that they are going to throw brilliant green paint at people, not to allow people to enter the meeting room, and commit other provocations so that witnesses could not give testimony before the commission,” Bereza wrote on Facebook on Nov. 28 night.
Therefore, the MP contacted the National Police’s chief Serhiy Kniazev and asked him not to allow for provocations and to make security arrangements to guarantee the unimpeded activities of the commission in Kherson.
“I would like to reach out to all those who have real information on the murder of Katia Gandziuk. If you are in possession of such information and have not provided or could not provide it to our law-enforcement bodies yet, we will be ready to listen to you on Friday morning, at the mayoral office, and take your testimony. We are interested in receiving information that may help us in finding those who ordered the murder and not just talking,” Bereza said.
