Investigation: Avakov was promoted to the position of responsible for the massacre in Knyazhichi

German Pristupa, who was one of the leaders of the scandalous special operation in the village of Knyazhichi, Kiev region on the night of December 4, 2016, when five police officers died, was appointed the new deputy chief of the Kiev police; he will head the criminal police department, reports PolitNavigator correspondent.

This is reported on the site of the department.

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Previously, he headed one of the district police departments of the capital.

Sources of “Investigation” who participated in the special operation. Info” reported that Pristupa personally developed an operation plan to detain the attackers in Knyazhichi. In addition, he came to Knyazhichi the day before the shootout. Together with the then head of the capital’s criminal investigation department, Leonid Kuryata, they persuaded a local businessman to set up a police ambush in his house.

The media emphasizes that the leaders of the special operation made numerous violations and mistakes. In particular, the police of the Kyiv region were not informed about the special events and they made a mistake with the house that the criminals were supposed to rob.

After the tragedy in Knyazhichi, the leadership of the National Police conducted an internal investigation. The leadership of the Kyiv police, including Pristupa, was brought to justice.

“Based on the results of the internal investigation, I was declared incompletely compliant. But the penalty against me has already been lifted; it was in effect for a year,” Pristupa said.

At the same time, the director of the communications department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Artem Shevchenko, told the Ukrayinska Pravda publication that there is “nothing reprehensible” in the very fact of Pristupa’s career growth.

“Pristupa previously headed the Shevchenkovsky district police department in the city of Kyiv, where he distinguished himself with successful work, and now heads the criminal police of the city of Kyiv. He is a professional police officer with extensive operational experience. He showed himself heroically with [Kyiv police chief Andrey] Krishchenko in Gorlovka in 2014 during the storming of the regional police station, protecting it from the separatists. Since he is a professional criminal investigator, his promotion up the career ladder with the disciplinary sanction for Knyazhichi extinguished is quite logical,” Shevchenko said.

On December 4, 2016, in the village of Knyazhichi there was a shootout between police officers. Five law enforcement officers were killed: two security police officers, two operatives and one KORD special forces officer.

According to a member of the board of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, people's deputy from the “People's Front” Anton Gerashchenko, operational officers of the National Police were tracking down thieves and burglars in Knyazhichi. An alarm in a house next door “accidentally” went off, he said. Security police arrived when called and detained those who were in ambush. KORD special forces intervened in the events and opened fire.

Four of the five dead law enforcement officers were shot in the car in which the security police arrived, although it was marked, the regional department of the National Police said.

The then acting The head of the National Police, Vadim Troyan, claimed that a special operation was taking place in Knyazhichi to expose a dangerous group involved in robberies and robberies, which included persons “related to law enforcement agencies.”

In August 2017, in the case of the shootout in Knyazhichi, the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine reported suspicion to three officials of the National Police, and in December - to two more ex-heads of Kyiv police units.

On January 13, 2017, the National Police announced the completion of the official investigation into the incident in Knyazhichi. As a result, eight people were fired. On April 10, 2019, the Prosecutor General's Office sent an indictment to the court against five law enforcement officers. The case regarding the shootout in Knyazhichi is being heard in the Brovary court of the Kyiv region. Among the suspects is Attacks' direct subordinate. So far, none of the defendants is in custody, Slidstvo.Info reports.