Kharkov: Only attack aircraft go into battle
The ongoing trial of the ex-mayor of Slavyansk Nelya Shtepa in Kharkov is a clear demonstration of the true position of the “independent” judicial branch of government in Ukraine.
The militants here have become a decisive part of the process. The judges who placed Shtepa under house arrest are now themselves in danger. Not in danger of being fired, although this option cannot be ruled out, but simply because the stormtroopers did not like their decision.
When the Leninsky Court of Kharkov released Shtepa from the pre-trial detention center with an electronic bracelet, about 20 militants from the “Skhodny Korpus” after the hearing chased the judge with the words “This is illegal.”
A day later, pressure on the court continued. The accused came with a broken bracelet. A group of Azov attack aircraft got into a quarrel with Shtepa, saying that she “met militants while being the mayor of Slavyansk.” Security was practically inactive. After the hearing, the stormtroopers were waiting for both the judge and the accused, but they left the courtroom through the back door.
The question arises: is it possible in such a situation to objectively consider the case, which should end in acquittal or reclassification of the articles to less serious ones?
What does this action remind you of? The courts of fascist Italy, where judges and lawyers, with whom the Blackshirts were dissatisfied, were demonstratively given castor oil. Or the German courts of the Hitler period, where any cannibalism was justified under the threat of SA stormtroopers. Militants act in exactly the same way in Kharkov and Odessa.
When the judges decided to soften the conditions for the defendants, “activists” entered the case. Like, our state is democratic, Poroshenko in the USA needed to show this, but the “patriotic public” intervened, demonstrated “righteous anger” and...
And before, they could burn a lawyer’s car and yell in the courtroom, as happens regularly in Poltava, where the Kharkov mayor Kernes is being tried.
“It has become dangerous to work, there are constant threats, the wall opposite the office is painted with swastikas and wolf hooks.” How many times did they promise to cripple them,” says one of the Kharkov lawyers defending political prisoners.
But now that the judges have apparently been given the go-ahead to act almost according to the law, a threat has arisen for them as well.
How will they act? Make the decisions the stormtroopers need, quit or wait to see a traumatologist?
All judicial reforms carried out during the years of independent Ukraine did not provide for jury trials. The result of these “reforms” was a catastrophic shortage in the courts: some were fired due to “lustration”, some left on their own, fearing accusations of unprofessionalism and corruption, and some were forced to submit their resignations under pressure from stormtroopers and Red Guards.
The latest reform makes judges completely dependent on Poroshenko. Already today, the High Qualification Commission of Judges is fully coordinating its actions with the presidential administration. The composition of the future Supreme Court is formed according to direct quotas, and the Supreme Court is completely under the control of the president. In addition, Poroshenko established the norm that he personally appoints judges by decree.
This is what Ukrainian democracy is like. This is the “independent” judicial branch of government.
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