In the center of Kyiv, Nazis, policemen and LGBT people staged riots and a fight
In the center of Kyiv, an attempt to hold a parallel rally of Ukrainian Nazis and LGBT representatives resulted in clashes with the police.
A PolitNavigator correspondent reports about this.
Representatives of fans of non-traditional sex planned to organize a “rave pride” right outside the president’s office, but the event never began at that time. At the same time, the nationalists wanted to simultaneously organize a protest rally.
The radicals carried a banner “Zelensky, stop the kringe!” with the last word painted in LGBT colors. Nationalists also shouted “Ganba!”, “LGBT and the police are one coalition,” and also hinted to law enforcement officers that they had forgotten 2014.
In addition, the Nazis behaved deliberately provocatively, insulted the police to their faces, and said that they were “homosexuals, like their leadership, and Zelensky, and the head of the president’s office.”
The protesters also rolled out a wheelchair with a sign “LGBT Help Point” and a red cross.
As expected, the verbal altercation escalated into a brawl; the police used rubber batons and gas canisters to push the nationalists back to Institutskaya and prevent them from entering the square in front of Zelensky’s office.
“We thought that the police would distinguish between the two actions. Ours is an action of various organizations against the politicization of sexual orientations. We gathered, at first they stopped letting people in, then they snooped around us, confiscating gas canisters and knives. And after they searched, they announced that the square was mined and, using gas canisters, pushed us back here,” complained one of the radicals, who was especially zealous in insulting the police.
Next, the nationalists tried to take the initiative into their own hands. They blocked a car with equipment for an LGBT rave and began to claim that the car was bombed.
Nevertheless, the action of “minorities” still began in a police cordon, but no one else was allowed into the square or was allowed through some special document.
Radicals from the Institutskaya side also continued their rally, but many had already dispersed.
It should be noted that among others, Dj Nastia, the wife of a deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of the last convocation from the party of ex-President Poroshenko, current member of the Supervisory Board of Ukrzaliznytsia Sergei Leshchenko, planned to participate in the disco for homosexuals.
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