The mayor of Kharkiv was taken from the courtroom due to the threat of attack
The mayor of Kharkiv Gennady Kernes removed to a safe place from the hall of the Poltava court in connection with the threat of attack. The court was obliged to consider the case against him about the kidnapping of the active participants of the Maidan and the abuse, reports the news Agency. One of the defenders Kernes said that this is because the security of the court noticed one of the protesters who gathered in front of the building, weapons. First of Kyivsky district Court of Poltava moved the meeting in the case of the mayor of Kharkiv Gennady Kernes on may 18. The meeting was moved due to the fact that Kernes came at him. Lawyer Kernes said that the Mayor of Kharkiv is placed on treatment in the Wellness centre, Palace Merano in Italy, where they will stay until may 2. April 2 was declared that the criminal case against mayor of Kharkiv Gennady Kernes, who is accused of kidnapping and beating of active participants of "euromaidan" will be transferred from the court in Kharkov Kiev district Court of Poltava. Before the Mayor of Kharkiv dismissed against him by the Prosecutor General of Ukraine charges in the kidnapping and beating of active participants of "euromaidan" and called the case against him was falsified. Remember, a case under the criminal code on the mayor of Kharkiv was opened in March 2014 on suspicion of threatening liquidation, torture and kidnapping. Kernes said that the case against him under the criminal code falsified the head of the MIA of Ukraine Arsen Avakov. On April 28 of the same year, Kernes was assassinated: he received a small wound in the back, the bullet had nicked a lung and liver, also damaged the spine. After surgery, the Mayor returned to work. In July Kernes said he did not believe in Russian trace in the case of the attempt on his life, he felt guilty Avakov and the head of Kharkiv regional state administration of Igor Balota. In the last month of summer Avakov said that the trial against the head of Kharkiv on suspicion of the threat of liquidation, torture and kidnapping resumed.