Zaporozhye, October 01 (PolitNavigator, Victoria Litovchenko) – A scandal is raging in the Zaporozhye region: a traffic police officer attacked a Donetsk driver with accusations of separatism.
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A video has appeared on the Internet in which traffic police officer Vasily Prytula stops a car with Donetsk license plates. The driver is in no hurry to comply with the request, clearly testing the patience of the law enforcement officer. As a result, the latter could not stand it and attacked the driver with his fists, saying: “You are a separatist, you are shooting our guys in the back.”
The law enforcement officer himself, commenting on the situation later, said that he could not allow this car to pass without inspection. In addition, the traffic cop believes that the driver deliberately provoked him, reports the Zanoza publication.
Advisor to the Minister of Internal Affairs Anton Gerashchenko stated that an additional check would be carried out against the law enforcement officer.
Journalists managed to find out that the traffic cop who attacked the driver was involved in another scandalous incident on the road for several years. At the end of August 2010, a Muscovite bit off a piece of Vasily Pritula’s finger. Then it turned out that a resident of Moscow was speeding in a Lexus, but did not admit his guilt. Pritula, holding the ID in his hand, began to formalize the violation. But the Russian demanded that the document be returned, and after refusing, he simply began to take it away. Yes, so zealously that he grabbed the traffic cop’s finger with his teeth. Everything happened so quickly that the second guard didn’t even have time to intervene. As a result, he lost part of the nail phalanx of his left thumb.