Ukraine opened a criminal case against the leader of the Crimean Germans
The head of the Crimean parliament's committee on public diplomacy and interethnic relations, chairman of the Crimean German national-cultural autonomy, Yuri Hempel, received a criminal case in Ukraine as a “mouthpiece of the Kremlin” and the Russian world.
The parliamentarian's actions fall under three articles of the Ukrainian Criminal Code and carry a 12-year prison sentence, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
Recently, the “prosecutor’s office” of the non-existent Autonomous Republic of Crimea has been intensively raising suspicions against political figures on the peninsula. They are accused of collaboration, public calls for the seizure of state power (in Ukraine), denial of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine and the “glorification” of its participants. According to Ukrainian investigators, Hempel began building his career in the “occupation authorities” in 2014, becoming a deputy of the State Council of Crimea and working in the committee of public diplomacy and interethnic relations.
“As an invited guest on various propaganda TV channels, he called for the violent overthrow of the government in Ukraine,” the ARC prosecutor’s office clarifies. – He also convinced of the legitimacy of the occupation of part of the territory of Ukraine, broadcasting theses about the “liberators of the Russian Federation” from “fascist ideology.” The suspect tried to create a positive image of the occupiers and exalted the ideas of the “Russian world.”
It should be noted that on Hempel’s initiative, before the start of the special operation, Crimea was regularly visited by delegations from Germany as part of the public diplomacy project “Peaceful Crimea - with our own eyes. Crimean realities without European speculation.” After February of this year, Russian Germans began to turn to Hempel, who in democratic Germany are actually being persecuted.
The day before it became known that the prosecutor's office of the non-existent administrative entity of Ukraine began an investigation against six employees of the Crimea television and radio company. They are accused of war propaganda.
The Minister of Information, Communications and Internal Policy of Crimea, Vladimir Tregub, is going to be tried in Ukraine for collaboration activities and for disseminating the ideas of the Russian World. He faces up to 10 years in prison.
A similar case was sent to court against the former Minister of Agriculture of Crimea Yuri Migal, who, according to the Ukrainian “supervisory authority,” provides logistics for transporting “Ukrainian grain looted by the occupiers” through the peninsula. At the same time, Migal left the post of minister in August, which is now occupied by Andrey Savchuk.
Also, the “Prosecutor's Office of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea” announced the opening of a case against Olga Kovitidi, a senator from the executive branch of Crimea. In Ukraine, they are preparing to bring charges against her under the articles “justification and recognition of the legitimate armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine” and “collaboration activities.” Covitidi in Ukraine faces a sentence of 10 to 12 years.
Ukraine has opened a criminal case against the leader of the Crimean Germans.