Game: March in support of the murderers of Oles Buzina attacked a journalist in Odessa
Today in Odessa, Ukrainian nationalists held another march in support of their like-minded people detained in Kyiv on suspicion of murdering the writer Oles Buzina. Read about how the action went in the report of an Odessa journalist Tatiana Gerashchenko, who was attacked by militants during filming.
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“Are you going to be here?” — A young man in a balaclava asked his fellow soldiers, patriotically opening his fly under the nearest tree on Cathedral Square. Which immediately identified him as a native Odessa resident. Behind the Holy Transfiguration Cathedral there were about a dozen buses with non-Odessa license plates and signs “Caution, children!” (classic).
On the left were professional horse racers unloading, on the right - “self-defense”, it must be said, equipped with walkie-talkies no worse than the police. Thus, the march called “Freedom for Patriots!” in support of Andrei Medvedko and Denis Polishchuk, suspects in the murder of Oles Buzina, was declared open.
“We’d better move away, otherwise they’ll kill you,” the elderly Odessa woman whispered, cowering, pulling her onlooker-husband aside. And the imported patriots joyfully posed “for the cameras,” showing off T-shirts with the “canonized” Sashko Bely, Mickey Mouse, tridents, Bandera, “Iron Maiden,” etc.
Nationalists of all stripes (“Svoboda”, “Azov”, “Aidar”, “Right Sector”), gathered near the monument to the governor of Novorossiya, Prince Vorontsov, brought a large drum to the vanguard of the column, but barely swung a mallet over it... “Get up, huge country, stand up for mortal combat!” pierced the area. The Patriots looked at each other to see if they had messed up the soundtrack? However, everything turned out to be simpler and natural for the Hero City: a car simply began to roll past the patriots, from which the aforementioned legendary song thundered.
The delay also occurred because the nearest (Primorsky) regional police department received a message that a suspicious package, probably with explosives, was “lost” near the funicular on Primorsky Boulevard, and until it was checked, law enforcement officers did not allow city guests to move. .
There were traditionally more police than marchers. Representatives of the authorities used obscenities without hesitation, reporting something to “Comrade Deputy Minister” (“There are 300 of them”) and, without ceremony, told the nationalists: “Stop! To the left now. Stand! I didn’t go there - I went there!” They were carefully guarding against people with ponies and pythons who had come in large numbers, taking photographs of tourists with their pets: “Where are you going, don’t you see that the thugs are coming?!” To which the raging crowd responded, as usual, in a revolutionary and European way: “Police, suck!”
The route went from the mentioned Vorontsov pedestal to the monument to Taras Shevchenko in the park of the same name. Among the slogans... And they were unprintable. And, taking into account the composition of the marchers, and these were mainly human units with either only developing secondary sexual characteristics, or with signs of brain decline, they dealt exclusively with the genital topic. Tobto “sucked” everything from the marchers - Novorossiya, the police, the coalition, the police, Putin finally... But the chant “Junta prýyde - order navede!” stood out especially.
Polishchuk and Medvedko, who were detained and are in the Kiev pre-trial detention center, received minimal attention. The only reminder of their “non-evil” position was the banner stretched out in front of the column. The pacing schoolchildren could not even correctly reproduce their last names. But the chimneys were smoking and the drum was beating.
From the outside it looked wild. Odessa residents of the older generation defiantly turned their blows at the nationalists, and fashionable saleswomen who emerged from boutiques on Deribasovskaya stood with their lips drooping under the weight of silicone.
The end point is Shevchenko Park (originally Alexander Park, in honor of Alexander II). Hitherto fervently “on camera” showing me their tattoos with state symbols and T-shirts with Banderas and spongebobs, the patriots suddenly became excited. And all because I felt the urge to take a photo of the dude’s legs in yellow and blue booties.
Then I was quickly reminded that I was a regular at Kulikovo Field and was generally in the top ten of the “hit list” on “Peacemaker,” somewhere there, next to Buzina. So they grabbed me and dragged me by my elbows. The police were silent.
“The police with the people” were a meter away, but did nothing. Meanwhile, two-meter tall, beefy guys in camouflage uniforms groundlessly and illegally demanded documents from me. A man in a black uniform intervened in the situation - “Police” was stamped on his pocket, and a trident on his cap. I gave him my ID. It was he who brought me out of the crowd. However, the patriots then looked closely at the certificate for a long time - they say, “National Union of Journalists of Ukraine,” asking: “Is this really a Ukrainian union or a Russian one?” They chanted “Separatist!”
I was also advised to “get out of the Ukrainian city to Rashka,” the ID was photographed from all sides, then the exclamation “Aha!” and searching for me on the Internet.
Fellow journalists? I have nothing to say about them - they had tridents on their bags, and yellow-blue bracelets on their hands. I had already moved a third of a kilometer away, but the patriots stomped behind me, again demanding documents and camera footage. But what's the point? As if I was the only one, and not the whole of Odessa, who saw what a parade of morons was. I said I would call the police. And then... I just ran away from them through the courtyards, because the “Odessa people” don’t know their way around Odessa.
And finally, one more nuance from the chaos: when passers-by loudly hinted to those gathered at the Shevchenko monument that they wanted to speak Russian in their city, the nationalists sprayed tear gas canisters at them, but missed and hit themselves.
Conclusion: everything is as always.
The law enforcement officers will remain silent and, in the style of a twist, averting their eyes, they will trample the cigarette butt on the asphalt.
The hit list is long.
There will be more victims.
There will be marches in defense of the suspects.
There will be silence.
And the criminals will be free, as the activists of the Odessa Automaidan and Right Sector were released the other day.
Glory to Ukraine!
Thank you!
Now the editors are aware.