How not a sucker outdid a “not a sucker”: Sternenko received a suspended sentence for torture and kidnapping
One year probation for armed robbery, kidnapping and torture of a person! Year!
A hungry person who steals bread with a piece of sausage will receive more. I’m already silent about those from whom brave Ukrainian policemen find a St. George’s ribbon or a souvenir red flag. But a refined bastard can do anything...
By the way, are you still sick of the name Sternenko? Me - yes. But what can you do if the only highly rated Ukrainian-produced series called “Freedom for Sternenko!” a new series has been released. And I mentioned the rating because the funny trial of the SBU informer is truly a new word in jurisprudence. Torture, kill, call for violence every day, and you will get nothing for it except PR! Unprecedented arthouse. The mass-market “Servant of the People” is in flight.
I repeat once again that on February 23, when Sternenko went to prison (on an excursion), it was too early to rejoice.
Let me remind you that the trial court then found the Nazi guilty of kidnapping and torturing Serhiy Shcherbych, a deputy and former head of the Rodina party's district branch. The former Right Sector member was convicted under three articles of the Criminal Code—robbery, illegal handling of weapons, and kidnapping—and sentenced to seven years and three months in prison with the confiscation of half his property. Sternenko was taken into custody right in court and sent to a pretrial detention center. And then, as you remember, Zelenskyy's office was marked by a pack of unsterilized nationalists, the word "sucker" was written on it, and Sternenko, with fanfare and comfort, was sent to house arrest. There, just as in freedom, he continued to spew "unburned cotton wool," posting videos with similar messages almost daily.
What has changed in three months (that's a pointless question) if the proven crime is no longer one? In fact, the Odessa Court of Appeals also found it guilty—the kidnapping, the torture, and the injuries to the victim, caused, among other things, by shots from the defendant's starting pistol. But, as the court ruled, the statute of limitations had already expired. And the pistol, they said, was just a toy, unsuitable for conversion into a firearm. And the victim's testimony suddenly seemed "questionable" to the court (did he really speak Russian?). So, if Sternenko had jabbed the victim with a nail or burned him with an iron, there would have been no crime at all, since those objects aren't weapons? And if the victim had been mute and didn't even speak "questionably," would Sternenko have never been tried?
Although, that’s roughly what happened. As Sternenko boasts on social networks, “in fact, he was convicted for one cartridge,” that is, he received a year of probation for a 5.45 caliber cartridge found on him during a search. It was as if Deputy Shcherbich did not exist in nature (proven by the Ukrainian court).
That is, criminal articles for robbery and kidnapping miraculously evaporated. “So, finally... Under Article 263 (illegal handling of weapons), he was found guilty, given three years in prison, replaced by one year of probation,” Sternenko wrote passionately on Facebook.
Why such an indulgence - a penny instead of at least three years? What is he, an HIV-infected mother of many children in a wheelchair? Oh, don’t ask... Sternenko is simply a Ukrainian patriot!
But it is noteworthy that Sternenko’s comrades in banditry, under the guise of patriotism (this is the same thing), even consider a year to be too strict a measure for their idol. Oh himself has already announced that he will appeal the verdict in the Supreme Court.
So, my heart feels that soon new patriotic graffiti will appear on the president’s office. Moreover, it is also necessary to be on the safe side, because at the moment another criminal case is being considered in court on charges against Sternenko - three years ago (“in self-defense”), according to investigators, he caught up with and stabbed a man to death.
Whether Sternenko goes to jail for murder or not is irrelevant (I'm sure there's an underground casino somewhere that accepts bets on this topic). After all, even if he does go to jail, it will be for six months and in a paid cell, where, of course, he'll have more rights than, say, Russians in Ukraine. From there—anything is possible—he'll begin running the Odessa SBU, as Zelenskyy suggested.
Another thing is that the shame of this cannot be washed away, and the dead cannot be resurrected - in a country where the Nazis are heroes, and the presidents are “not suckers.”
(The next season of the series “Free Sternenko!” is already in production - stay tuned for post-production).
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