A Ukrainian Maidan deputy will be caught to cut off a tuft of hair for analysis for hallucinogens
Lawyers for Kyiv region resident Vyacheslav Khimikus, who was shot dead on New Year's Eve by Verkhovna Rada deputy Serhiy Pashinsky, have noted the shooter's consistent erratic behavior and want to test him for drug use.
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Ukrainian lawyer Andrey Portnov, who is coordinating the campaign to defend a victim of a lawless deputy previously implicated in a scandal involving covering for a Maidan sniper, reported this on his Facebook page .
“The complex of educational measures against the NF deputy Pashinsky continues. Yesterday, during breaks between trials, our lawyers initiated a new, medical branch of the work and filed a petition to conduct a forensic biological examination of the defendant. Experienced experts argue that the behavior of a deputy in public places, his caricatured and disheveled appearance, painful hysterical laughter, inadequate reaction, inappropriate facial expressions, untimely gestures, bizarre grimaces and eccentric gestures differ significantly from the indicators of an ordinary person leading a healthy lifestyle.
Already a superficial expert analysis indicates the deputy’s possible use of an inflated amount of psychotropic, narcotic or hallucinogenic drugs. The defense initiated a biological examination of the deputy’s hair to legally consolidate their assumptions, since in the public mind this does not raise doubts in the majority of people,” Portnov wrote.
He also provided a link to a copy of the corresponding petition to the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine regarding the selection of material for biological examination.
“In case of refusal to satisfy the request for the selection of hair, we reserve the right to take possession of it in an extra-procedural manner by contacting organized
groups of law-abiding volunteers to forcibly capture the person involved and take samples from him in a way that risks entering into some dissonance with the generally accepted principles of democracy and humanism,” the lawyer warns.
Portnov also provided several photographs attached to the appeal to the Prosecutor General’s Office, indicating Pashinsky’s inappropriate behavior.
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