The former President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych wanted to take part in the court session via video link in the case of the execution of Euromaidan, reports TASS .
He appealed to the Pechersky District Court of Kiev “with the requirement to ensure his personal participation by videoconference in the process of considering the petition of the Office of the Prosecutor General to elect him a preventive measure in the” Maidan “case,” said the Aver Lex law firm, whose lawyers represent the interests of the ex-president.
The defense noted that earlier the Kiev Court of Appeal overturned the “illegal and unjustified decision” to arrest Yanukovych, and now the prosecution is demanding that he be taken into custody again.
Lawyers also demand to hear in court “all the victims who have been for six years prosecutor’s office misleads, replacing fiction with the appearance of an objective investigation. “
One of Yanukovych’s defenders, Vitaly Serdyuk , added that the court will “15 volumes of materials confirming the involvement of real murderers – representatives of the post-Maidan authorities’ in the executions on the Maidan” were transferred.
In May, the Pechersky District Court of Kiev arrested Yanukovych in absentia in the case of organizing the massacres in February 2014 on the Independence Square (Independence Square) in Kiev. In November, the court of appeal overturned this decision, citing procedural violations and the fact that the ex-president was not in the wanted list Interpol .
Earlier, Yanukovych was found guilty of high treason and complicity in unleashing and waging an aggressive war and sentenced in absentia to 13 years in prison.
Euromaidan – massive anti-government demonstrations that took place in the winter of 2013-2014 on Independence Square in Kiev and other cities and ended with the overthrow of Yanukovych. More than 100 people were killed in clashes between protesters and security forces.