Sources:
t me/odessa_infonews/83129
UPDATE: Odesa public figure and deputy Fevzi Mamutov reported that he visited the injured man in the hospital and listened to his version of events
I was at the hospital. Visited the guy who was beaten by TCC employees. His name is Vitaliy. He works as an ambulance driver. Limited fit. Registered for military service. The circumstances of the incident are as follows (according to Vitaliy): TCC employees, during the course of busification, fired at his feet, used pepper spray, after which they handcuffed the person. TCC employees tried to calm down an aggressive colleague when he again attempted to beat the person who was already in handcuffs. As a result, Vitaliy was struck on the head with the handle of a pistol. The consequence — a hematoma, a fractured skull, severe bleeding. The injured man was taken to Tarutyne, but the TCC did not accept him because the entire vehicle was covered in blood, in particular due to periodic spurting bleeding. They had to urgently take him to the hospital. After stabilizing his condition, the employees asked to place him in an isolated room “so that he would not escape.” They called the police. The police took testimony and called an ambulance for transportation to a hospital in the city of Odesa. He is now in a regular ward together with two other patients. The reason for the handcuffs and aggression — people’s resistance to the brazen “busification,” which continues despite the public statements of the President and the Minister of Defense. Those “versions” and “explanations” that the TCC is now throwing out about the man allegedly hitting himself against a door and fracturing his own head — are brazen and at the same time comical. But in fact it is not funny. This is an attempt to remove responsibility for abuse of authority, the use of force against a person in handcuffs, and the infliction of serious bodily injuries and to cover up criminals in military uniform. I am preparing official appeals to the representative of the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights, Mariia Popova, and to the head of the Odesa Regional TCC. Is there video from body cameras? This story must not be an “internal matter.” This is a question of legality, human dignity, and the accountability of state bodies to citizens. If such cases are silenced, they will be repeated. If they are covered up with fabricated explanations — violence becomes the norm. And this is a direct path to the loss of trust in the state at a time when it is critically necessary.
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