People's Deputy, member of the BYuT faction Andriy Shkil on Monday refuted the information from the NDP-PPPU faction about the beating of the son of NDP leader Valeriy Pustovoitenko and, in turn, claims an attack on the deputies themselves.
As reported, representatives of BYuT and "Our Ukraine" arrived at the "Novyi Druk" printing house on Saturday evening in connection with the fact that there were leaflets compromising presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko located there. The NDP-PPPU faction demanded a legal assessment of the actions of parliamentarians Andriy Shkil, Yuriy Orobets and Volodymyr Bondarenko in connection with the fact that they, together "with a group of unidentified persons," burst into the printing house and "committed physical and moral abuse against its employees."
According to the deputy, he is not aware of any criminal case initiated against him. In addition, Shkil is convinced that there are no grounds for this, since "this is an attack on people's deputies."
Shkil claims that a person "nearly two meters tall," who turned out to be Pustovoitenko's son, "attacked the cameraman." "His behavior was insolent, which was recorded on video," noted the people's deputy, and explained his own behavior by the fact that he was trying to pull apart the people who were fighting.
The BYuT faction member claims that he and other people's deputies arrived at the "Novyi Druk" printing house in order to find out whether anti-Yushchenko and anti-Ukrainian materials were indeed being printed there. He also claims that everything that happened was witnessed by law enforcement officers who "were constantly nearby."
Shkil expressed confidence that a criminal case would be initiated over the incident, which "will be brought to its senses after the elections." "Lawyers insist on the necessity of initiating a criminal case over the fact of the attack on people's deputies," said the BYuT member.
He claims that he has already appealed to the Central Election Commission, and a corresponding protocol has also already been drawn up regarding the printed materials that were found at the printing house. According to Shkil, the circulation indicated on the leaflets does not correspond to reality. The BYuT member also noted that no documents confirming the legality of the printed materials were presented to the deputies.