In Simferopol, the security forces blocked the temple of the UOC of the Kyiv Patriarchate

In Simferopol, the Russian special services blocked the Cathedral of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate, the temple of the Holy Equal -to -the -Apostles Princes of Olga and Vladimir. It is reported by "Crimea. Realities."

About 10 in the morning, the bailiffs, accompanied by the security forces, entered the temple, breaking the doors. “The entrance locks of the first floor are torn. The barbarians burst into the temple, break the altar on the second floor, the icons confiscate,” wrote Andrei Shchend, coordinating council of the coordination council of organizations from Crimea.

The security forces to the Archbishop of Simferopol and Crimean UOC KP Climenta injured their hand. "When I tried to go to the first floor, they grabbed the hand and broke it off. Hell pain, I'm waiting for an ambulance." - Clement said.

“The first floor is blocked, there is a security in black camouflage - special forces, a representative of the property fund is walking, the door from the chapel of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior is broken, the door was already hacked from the street,” the archbishop said. “No arguments that the territory of the first floor belongs to the diocese management, they are showing some court decisions that are shown by some decisions of the court that shows some court decisions that are shown by some decisions of the court. The spiritual center is obliged to move out of the premises, although there is no more than two years in the Diocese’s spiritual center in the Diocese. ”

According to Clement, the bailiffs took the cross, church utensils, rare icons, a dining room of porcelain and Bohemian crystal, which were presented to the church, as well as carpets. At the same time, there was no inventory of things, the archbishop was not proposed to sign any act on the seizure of church property.

"The barbaric attitude of the Russian occupation authorities towards priests and parishioners of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate in temporarily occupied Crimea, as well as constant repressions and persecution against the Muslims of Crimea, are evidence of Russia's strengthening the targeted crowding out of the Crimean Tatars and ethnic Ukrainians beyond the borders of Crimea and their replacement by ethnic Russians, imported from the continent from the continent Russia, ”Refat Chubarov, chairman of the Crimean Tatar people, commented on the seizure of the cathedral.

On January 14, 2016, the arbitration court of the annexed Crimea ordered the Crimean diocese of the UOC -KP to pay half a million rubles of a fine and release 112 square meters on the ground floor of the Cathedral in Simferopol. In June last year, the Court of Appeal of Sevastopol confirmed this decision.

Clement then said that recently the pressure had intensified on him, and he receives threats to his address. The archbishop complained that the Ukrainian government does nothing to support the Kyiv Patriarchate in Crimea. In particular, according to him, the Ukrainian government has not yet decided to transfer the premises in Simferopol, where the Crimean diocesan administration of the UOC -KP and the Cathedral of the Holy Equal -to -the -Apostles Vladimir and Olga is located, in the property of the UOC of the Communist Party. “For this, it was enough to make changes to existing decisions and adopt them with a decision of the government, or the Verkhovna Rada. And this would give us the opportunity to look for the truth and protection in international courts,” the archbishop said.

Immediately after the annexation of Crimea, the Russian authorities began to violate the previous written guarantees of the inviolability of the parishes of the UOC -KP. Already in April 2014, the believers actually took away the churches of the holy martyr Clement of the Pope and the Protection of the Mother of God in the village of Perevalny.

On April 25, 2014, on behalf of the entire Crimean diocese of the UOC, the Communist Party will turn to President of Russia Vladimir Putin demanding equal rights to believers of the Kyiv Patriarchate in Crimea to freely exercise prayer and church life, a free confession of the Orthodox faith and national-cultural traditions.