The head of the Volyn regional headquarters of Viktor Yushchenko, People's Deputy of Ukraine Volodymyr Bondar, spoke before the participants of the picket by workers of the Lutsk Automobile Plant in front of the Volyn Regional State Administration. The picket by the automobile plant workers was prompted by a gang attack on LuAZ director Volodymyr Hunchyk and what the workers consider the inadequate behavior of law enforcement agencies. Volodymyr Bondar is concerned that the plant, which forms the basis of the city's budget revenues, cannot operate stably due to constant problems created for it by two structures – the regional state administration and the tax administration. The People's Deputy expressed confidence that the perpetrators of the criminal actions against the general director of the enterprise will be found. To this end, a parliamentary appeal has been submitted to Minister of Internal Affairs M. Bilokon demanding that the case be taken under personal control. Volodymyr Bondar, like all employees of the enterprise, links the plant's problems to its management's involvement with opposition forces. The People's Deputy believes that "the cause of all troubles is one – the enterprise has clearly oriented itself politically. The management and employees have determined that they do not want to live in a state that fights against its own people and working enterprises." LuAZ workers addressed a statement to government representatives, which reads: "By organizing a robbery attack on Volodymyr Petrovych Hunchyk, the current authorities have once again demonstrated their criminal face and have once again signed their own verdict. We declare with full responsibility: we are not afraid of the criminals who have today entrenched themselves in high offices, and we will do everything in our power to ensure that they answer under the law for all their illegal actions."