Lviv regional police have opened a criminal investigation into threats made against Radical Party MP Andriy Lozovy during a conflict with a 37-year-old resident of Skole district in Lviv region, the regional police’s media liaisons office has reported.
The incident occurred in Skole district, Lviv region, on Oct. 22. The police received a report from a resident of Skole district at 18.52 that employees of a recreation center inflicted bodily injuries on a Ukrainian MP in the village of Khaschovania, Skole district.
“On Oct. 22, a people’s deputy of Ukraine had a meeting with voters at the Prosvita people’s home in the village of Khaschovania in Skole district. At about 18.25, during a meeting with the public in the building of the people’s home, a verbal conflict erupted between a 37-year-old resident of Skole district and the people’s deputy of Ukraine,” the police said.
Criminal proceedings were opened under Part 1, Article 346 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (threat of murder, injury to health, destruction or damage to property, and kidnapping or imprisonment of a people’s deputy of Ukraine, head of a political party of Ukraine, close relatives committed in connection with their state or public activities). The article envisages deprivation of liberty for a term of up to five years.
The circumstances of this incident are being investigated.
Earlier, Lviv City Council deputy Ihor Zinkevych wrote on his Facebook page that Lozovy was beaten in Skole district (Lviv region) on Oct. 22.
“The conflict erupted in the village of Khaschovania, Skole district, near the Vedmezha Vezha center. Lozovy came there to meet with voters,” Zinkevych wrote.
The report notes that after the incident Lozovy applied to the police.
The MP himself reported that he was attacked by the “forest mafia” in Lviv region.
“Please do not worry, I’m all right. They will not wait! The customer of the attack on me is the forest mafia,” he wrote on his Facebook page.
