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After the breakthrough of Saakashvili, two cases openly across the border
The Lviv Regional Directorate of the National Police of Ukraine opened a case on the breakthrough of the former Odessa governor Mikhail Saakashvili and his supporters through the Shegini checkpoint on the Polish-Ukrainian border. The corresponding message appeared at night on the website of the National Police.
The case is qualified under part 1 of Article 332 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (illegal crossing of the border), which provides for three to five years in the colony.
Specific suspects in the publication are not reported.
The day before, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine announced its FB page that preliminary in the actions of the organizers of events on the border, the composition of not only the 332nd but also the 348th article of the Criminal Code (an encroachment on the life of a law enforcement or a border guard; from 9 to 15 years or a life sentence). It was reported that during a fight at the Shegini checkpoint, 11 police officers and 5 border guards were injured.
Meanwhile, the day, Ukrainian Pravda, transferred with reference to the head of the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Artem Shevchenko that the second open case was qualified in part 2 of Article 342 of the Code (resistance to a law enforcement officer performing duties), the sanction of which is up to two years of the colony.
On Monday morning, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Arsen Avakov wrote on his FB page that, waiting for clashes, he gave the policemen and border guards the order in no case to use weapons. “It was important for me to prevent a force clash and spilled blood,” the official explained.
"Saakashvili and all illegally crossing the border must immediately choose from two options: arrive at the Shegina checkpoint and go through the registration procedure and/or arrive in the migration service unit," Avakov also said.
Prime Minister Vladimir Groysman regarded the incident on the border as "the beginning of the next attack of some of our politicians against Ukrainian statehood." “I will not say anything about Miho Saakashvili - he has his own goals and his motives,” the head of government added. “I'm talking about those of our Populist politicians who act on the principle of" the worse, the better. "
Later, on Monday, President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko said that Saakashvili’s breakthrough "does not require any political comments." “We can comment and we will comment on the legal field,” the head of state explained.
The decree on the deprivation of Saakashvili of Ukraine, Poroshenko continued, could be appealed to the Supreme Administrative Court, but for a month and a half appeals from Saakashvili or his representatives were not received to this instance. “Instead, a crime has been committed, because there is a constitutional principle of inviolability of the state border,” Poroshenko remarked. “This is a matter of national security of the state. And I don’t care who violates the state border - either militants in the east, or politicians in the West. There should be clear legal legal responsibility.”
Late in the evening of September 10, the European Parliament deputy Yatsek Sarius-Volsky told Onet.pl that the Poland Foreign Ministry called Ukraine ambassador to Warsaw Andrei a child to give an explanation in connection with Saakashvili’s prevention to Ukraine. However, the kid himself on his Twitter denied this.
On Sunday afternoon, Saakashvili deprived of Ukrainian citizenship with his supporters tried to enter Ukraine from Poland by the Ukrainian train Pshymisl - Kiev, but Ukrzaliznitsa detained the composition with hundreds of passengers for three hours , until the former governor went to the platform. Among other Saakashvili was accompanied by the leader of the "Fatherland" Yulia Tymoshenko, the former director of the SBU, the probable candidate of the president of Ukraine Valentin Nalyvaichenko and a group of Verkhovna Rada deputies.
In the evening, the politician arrived by the bus to the border post "Shegini". Polish border guards unhinderedly released him, but the Ukrainian refused to allow them to their country. At the same time, they completely closed the transition through Shegini, saying that the border post was mined.
However, about 700 Saakashvili supporters, gathered from the Ukrainian side of the border, staged a fight with the security forces, and in the starting brawl a former governor at about 20:30 penetrated the country and headed for Lviv.