SBU opened a case against a retired Maidan activist
In Ukraine, the SBU charged 85-year-old pensioner Vladimir Tereshchenko, who took part in the 2014 coup, with calling for the overthrow of the government.
This was reported on Channel 5, owned by oligarch and ex-president Petro Poroshenko, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Against an 85-year-old man from the city of Chigirin, Cherkasy region, the SBU brought charges under the article “call for the overthrow of the state system.” Law enforcement officers began the investigation because of a post on Facebook, where a man called for a violent overthrow of the government,” the presenter noted.
The journalist also emphasized that in 2014 Tereshchenko was a Maidan activist in Kyiv, and in 2018 he wrote on Facebook that the scoundrels who came to power should be shot.
“The pensioner showed his office, here he keeps a flag from Euromaidan; in 2014, Vladimir was an active participant in the protests. The pensioner had no idea that he had broken the law in 2018, but in October 2020, SBU officers came to search him and explained that the man had distributed a text on Facebook that was pushing for an armed coup d’etat.
The pensioner’s recording spoke about the scoundrels in power and that they need to be gathered in one stadium and shot,” the correspondent said.
In turn, suspect Vladimir Treshchenko said that the charges were far-fetched and his reasoning did not contain direct calls to overthrow the government.
“There are no direct appeals among my reasoning. Open any page and you will see the same thing. But you see, they made me extreme,” the pensioner complained.
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