On July 31, an unidentified assailant threw acid on Kateryna Handzyuk, a local council member who monitored police activities in Kherson. Police initially arrested a man and coerced him into signing a “confession,” allegedly promising in exchange to resolve existing problems he had with the authorities. His sister said, however, that the man was not in Kherson on the date of the attack and had several witnesses to support his alibi.
After he spent 19 days in detention, the police released him without charge and apologized. At the same time, they arrested five other suspects, four of whom admitted their involvement in the attack. Initially, police did not investigate the attack as an attempted “contract murder” but as a simple “attempted murder,” which Handzyuk’s lawyer said has caused a significant delay in establishing who ordered the attack.
>On July 31, an unidentified assailant threw acid on Kateryna Handzyuk, a local council member who monitored police activities in Kherson. Police initially arrested a man and coerced him into signing a “confession,” allegedly promising in exchange to resolve existing problems he had with the authorities. His sister said, however, that the man was not in Kherson on the date of the attack and had several witnesses to support his alibi.
>After he spent 19 days in detention, the police released him without charge and apologized. At the same time, they arrested five other suspects, four of whom admitted their involvement in the attack. Initially, police did not investigate the attack as an attempted “contract murder” but as a simple “attempted murder,” which Handzyuk’s lawyer said has caused a significant delay in establishing who ordered the attack.
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