A rally demanding to dismiss the Deputy head of the National police of Ukraine Vasyl Pascal has held from the very dawn Friday outside the interior Ministry in Kiev, told the media.

"Neither the head of the Ministry of internal Affairs, Nor the new head of police came on Wednesday at our parliamentary Committee on combating and preventing bribery to explain why nedoustanovlennoy officially, according to the law about the cleansing power, General Pascal in the new police force has occupied such a high position ", - has told to TV channel "112 Ukraine" the words of the protesters, the people's Deputy from the faction "Samopomich" Dmitry Dobrodomov. Activists believe Pascal was involved in the persecution of the participants of "euromaidan" in 2013. In addition, it is associated with provocations that took place at Parliament building on August 31. Activists also report that Pascal falls under the lustration with a ban to hold positions in bodies of state power, however, avoids lustration of the decision of the court. The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine of 4 November has deprived the workplace has Pascal from the post of Deputy head of the Ministry of internal Affairs, to which he was appointed in early winter 2014, in connection with the transition to a new job. On Tuesday it was announced that Pascal was appointed the first Deputy head of the National police ? head of the criminal police. Prior to this, the faction "Self-help" in the Verkhovna Rada demanded to call in the Parliament the head of the Ministry of internal Affairs of Ukraine Arsen Avakov in connection with the appointment of his former Deputy was Pascal Deputy head of the National police.

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