Prosecutors will certainly clear the deputy's son, who started a fight in Kalush and provoked a conflict during which the politician's son was hit in the head with a pistol registered to his mother. The only question is, won't the innocent people who defended themselves from the rich kid's outrage be punished?
A conflict erupted recently in the city of Kalush in the Ivano-Frankivsk region, when the son of Olha Sikora, a member of parliament from the Batkivshchyna faction, decided to make a statement and began threatening people while waving a pistol. According to Andriy Bilyk, a local resident involved in the conflict and now hospitalized with head injuries, he wanted to reprimand the outrageous deputy's son, but when he was rebuffed and threatened, a friend named Mykhailo came to his aid and helped take the pistol away.
After the incident, the deputy's son fled in a car, and his mother, a member of parliament, took it upon herself to comment on the conflict. Olga Sikora claimed that the opposite was true, and that it was the son who defended his offended mother, for which he was hit in the head with his own pistol. Sikora also described the case as political and related to the upcoming elections, noting that none of this would have happened if the election campaign hadn't been ongoing.
It's worth explaining here who Olga Sikora is and what she means in Kalush. Essentially, this Batkivshchyna MP is the informal "mistress" of the Kalush district. As the founder of the Astoria private enterprise, which includes a hotel and restaurant in downtown Kalush, she also served as the director of the SHANS Television and Radio Broadcasting Company. Sikora also served twice as a member of the Kalush District Council in the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast.
In 2012, Olha Sikora became a people's deputy for Batkivshchyna, winning by a landslide, garnering over 50% of the vote in the 85th electoral district. She will likely run in the same district this time around.
Incidentally, Sikora has had incidents similar to the conflict with her son. Last September, for example, she got into a fight with a State Security Service employee while trying to gain entry to the Karpatneftekhim plant, which former Prime Minister Mykola Azarov was visiting.Read more about it in the article Nikolai Azarov. The Survivor).
A Main Directorate of Public Order filed a complaint with the Kalush District Police Department alleging that a deputy had struck him on the head, but the Batkivshchyna faction immediately raised an uproar and began demanding an explanation from the Prosecutor General's Office. The case was quickly hushed up, and the state security officer was found guilty. Sikora, however, posed for the camera with some bruises on her arms, but they look more like marks from attempts to restrain a struggling individual than from physical assault. Incidentally, the conflict with Azarov's security guards did not prevent Sikora from voting for government bills while in the opposition Batkivshchyna faction and later publicly criticizing the government for corruption.
However, she still deeply supports the policies of the new Yatsenyuk government, obediently voting for all Cabinet initiatives.
It's therefore unsurprising that, in the case of the fight provoked by his own son, the prosecutor's office was quick to side with Sikora. For the sake of form, the prosecutor's office announced that the investigation would be transferred to "some other" district to prevent any possible pressure on the investigation.
Prosecutors don't admit on camera that they try to "carefully" investigate cases involving politicians and their relatives, lest they "send in so many inspections that you won't have time to raise your head." To avoid what one prosecutor himself called "a hassle," the case has already been classified as "robbery," and the injured party is the son of a people's deputy, known only for being 22 years old and with a last name of Melentyev. According to the prosecutor's office, Melentyev's PMR-M pistol, registered to his mother, a gold chain (what would a deputy's son be without a gold chain?), and a wristwatch were stolen. He is currently hospitalized, but his health is not in danger.
What's suspicious about this story is that the other two parties to the conflict—Andriy Bilyk and his friend Mikhail—agreed to openly comment on the incident on camera, while Melentyev hid behind his mother's apron and the prosecutor's protection. The parents of the first two victims are now worried that their children will be framed for robbery to cover up their deputy son, while Bilyk's mother, Ruslana, weeps and wonders why she stood on the Maidan.
In short, the Prosecutor's Truth has three questions:
Will the prosecutor's office explain how the son of People's Deputy Olga Sikora ended up in possession of a PMR-M pistol registered to his mother late at night? Will this fact be taken into account in the criminal proceedings?
Will the prosecutor's office reveal the specific district or department in which the fight and possible robbery are being investigated, so that the public can monitor the situation and prevent political pressure on the investigation? Or has it already decided to make Andriy Bilyk the scapegoat?
Will the Batkivshchyna faction, which so vehemently defended Sikora during her own clash with the Main Education Department employee, offer a political assessment of the situation with their deputy's son today? Or will the residents of District No. 85 themselves, who have experienced firsthand the lawlessness of the deputies and prosecutors, offer an assessment, given the elections are so close?
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