Right Sector roughs up Shufrych in Odesa, promises new attacks
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Opposition lawmaker Nestor Shufrych, seeking re-election in the Oct. 26 parliament, ended his campaign tour to Odesa on Sept. 30 in a hospital bed, after several dozen local activists of militant Right Sector attacked him and roughed him up. They blame him for crimes committed by the regime of ousted President Viktor Yanukovych.
Shufrych, who was elected to the current parliament as part of Yanukovych’s Party of Regions party list, is now going to parliament as No. 7 from the Opposition Bloc, a group formed predominantly from former Yanukovych’s allies.
Shufrych said he was planning to conduct a short press conference in the building of the Odesa regional government administration. Learning of his plans, members of the militantly nationalist Right Sector found him and threw him into a trash bin and marked him with green paint.
Mykola Skoryk, deputy of Odesa Oblast council and a former oblast governor was also been beaten up along with Shufrych.
“I’m surprised to put it mildly by what happened today in the building of regional administration,” Shufrych said, lying in a hospital bed with a red nose and bandaged right eye. “It is a demonstration of what the authority in Ukraine and Odesa, in particular, look like,” he added.