Outside the court of Poltava, where the case of the mayor of Kharkiv Gennady Kernes, there were clashes Between protesters and police.
The press is not allowed in the room, explain this by saying that not enough space for everyone. Between activists and police there was a fight, reports the news Agency.
Advisor to the head of the Ministry of internal Affairs of Ukraine Anton Gerashchenko on his page on Facebook wrote that Kernes as if making every effort to defend the court." There is also an opinion that all This story with specific characters eggs could be organized by the support group on Facebook in order to artificially make like a danger to His participation in the judicial meeting in Poltava. His lawyers have already told the reporters present in court, as if they Have operational information about the fact that some of the protesters could be a weapon. This version will be checked, " wrote Gerashchenko." I believe that the Kyiv district court of Poltava is obliged to continue its work on consideration of the case of G. A. Kernes In operation. And law Enforcement agencies, the security service and the activists are obliged to provide safety of the trial and the lack of provocation in the process ", - said Gerashchenko. Before the first day of the week it was declared that 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. 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.

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