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Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty
Henry M. Robert

Has Criminal Terror Sidetracked the Greens?

9 February, 1999 - 00:00

By Vyacheslav YAKUBENKO,The Day
Viktor Kononenko, assistant to People's Deputy Vitaly Kononov (chairman
of the Green Party), was savagely beaten recently around midnight in the
entryway of his apartment block.

In an interview with The Day the Greens' leader commented on
the incident: "Any attack on the assistant of a political figure is nothing
but a political action. I am alarmed because I don't know who was behind
it."

It was the victim himself who told The Day the details of the
incident. Coming into the entrance where the light was out that night for
unknown reasons, Mr. Kononenko called the elevator, and at the same moment
a young man ran into the doorway. He broke the deputy assistant's nose
with an abrupt boxing hook and then started beating the lying victim with
an iron rod. Mr. Kononenko still managed to kick back and escape. In the
hospital, doctors found the following injuries: a broken nose, two hematomas
on an arm and a leg; and the victim was given three stitches for a deep
head wound. The militia arrived three minutes after being called, for the
victim immediately phoned an acquaintance of his at the administration
for combating organized crime.

 

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