Military beating in Khmelnitsky: the court decided not to arrest the priest of the UOC PM (photo)

According to journalists, the accused of beating Igor Slobodyan refused to explain why he was hiding from the investigation. His lawyer stated that all this time he was at home because he was afraid of his family's safety. On Thursday, April 20, Khmelnytsky City District Court chose a preventive measure of the UOC MP, Igor Slobodyan, taking him under his personal obligation. About it writes the portal "XM-Inside".

The publication states that the Slobodana put in the blame of the former serviceman of the Armed Forces Arthur Ananyev in the territory of St. Pokrovsky Cathedral in Khmelnitsky. The priest was declared suspicion in Article 125 (1) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (deliberately easy bodily harm). According to journalists, on April 5, this article was wanted by Slobodyan.

Due to the fact that the priest evaded the challenges to the investigation authorities, the prosecutor urged him to put him in custody, but the court took him under his personal obligation. It is reported that Igor Slobodian refused to comment on the media about why he was hiding from the investigation. During the court hearing, his lawyer Roman Kosyuk stated that all this time he was at home because he was afraid for the safety of his loved ones.

The lawyer Slobodyan also indicated that the clergyman voluntarily came to the police and the court. We will remind that on April 2 the serviceman of the Armed Forces Viktor Burlik announced the beating of the Ukrainian military priests of the UOC -MP in one of the churches of the city of Khmelnytsky. Victim Arthur Ananiev went to the front with the beginning of a full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation, where he received contusion and traumatic brain injury.