Case under the criminal code against the activist of the Euromaidan Alexander Kostenko, the accused in the attack on the workers of the Crimean special forces " Berkut ", is not political, said the Prosecutor of the Crimea Natalia Polonskaya, which is the Prosecutor in court. The defendant is accused of causing injuries to the employee of "Golden Eagle" in the process of mass riots in Kiev in February 2014. First of Poklonskaya said Kostenko involved in radical nationalist party " Freedom ", the defence the defendant denies this. According to the lawyer, Kostenko did not participate in mass clashes on the Maidan and was involved there as a volunteer only to provide medical care to all victims, including employees of the police Department. The twentieth of April, the Kyiv district court of Simferopol has begun to consider the merits. "there is absolutely no politics, exclusively the law," said Poklonski Fins news . She commented on the message of the defendant's lawyer Dmitry Sotnikov, who had sought to postpone the trial in the capital region, because in Crimea, according to his vision, it has acquired political overtones. The next meeting of court will take place on may 7-8, will be invited witnesses from protection, which, According to protection, have the ability to assure the innocence Kostenko to the application of the Crimean "berkutova" bodily injury, confirming his alibi. The witnesses live in the West of Ukraine. Kiev's main square Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence square) - was occupied by supporters of European integration on November 21, 2013, immediately after the announcement of the government of Mykola Azarov about temporary suspension of the signing of the Treaty on the Union with the EU. Later, the Maidan became the epicenter of the confrontation between the security forces and radicals. The clashes, during which opposing political force many times used firearms and " Molotov cocktails ", were dozens of casualties.