News / 19 January 2007 | 13:59

Zaporizhzhya governor has a conflict with local police
Head of Zaporizhzhya regional state administration
Yevhen Chervonenko told ForUm about circumstances of the conflict with local
police, which officials try to evict him from the house.
Chervonenko noted that the conflict with the local
police and attempts to evict his from his house started when he dared to criticize
actions of the police.
“I am not going to leave my place on principle. A
question on my eviction arose after my criticism in address of local police
government,” Chervonenko underlined. “If the region is excellent in all activities,
then in criminality it is awful. Number of dead bodies fro New Year holidays
increased twice the statistics of the last year. On the session of the coordinating
council I dared to declare that police chief reported on detaining illegal street
vendors of dry fish and pasties, but he never told about 30 dead bodies found and
about knifed under age boy and girl,” he specified.
Analyzing the situation Chervonenko supposed that “in
Zaporizhzhya interests of the police come across interests of local criminals…and
bandits feel unpunished.”
In connection with the conflict Chervonenko underlined
that he does not have any personal ambitions, demands, requests or dislike for
the police chief. “I live in peace with all defense and law enforcement
agencies and Zaporizhzhya region showed an example of tolerance to the whole
country. But when I dared to criticize, they responded with meanness, not
typical for men. First they divulged information that I was allegedly involved
in criminal actions and did not pay housing rent. In response I hung out a
receipt, which said that I paid even extra,” the governor told.
According to him, after that he received a letter from
the police governing body, which stated that ventilation flaws were detected in
the house he rents. The flaws caused deformation of some parts of the house and
the building must be dismantled. “But I am not going to leave the house,”
Chervonenko declared.
The governor considers that one of the causes of the conflict
was a fact that information was concealed from him, especially the case when “some
police officials called prostitutes before the New Year and when the latter asked
for payment, policemen put them on the floor and started to shoot at them; one
of the girls was wounded.”
ForUm