Russia Detains Ukrainian Parliament Member Over Odessa Fire - NYTimes.com
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Moscow police have detained a member of Ukraine’s parliament as he was taking part in a march mourning a slain Russian opposition figure. Ukraine’s parliament has protested the detention.
The federal Investigative Committee said Alexei Goncharenko was being questioned Sunday about his alleged involvement in a fire that broke out last year in his home city Odessa between pro-Ukrainian and pro-Russian demonstrators. Dozens died in the fire, including some Russian citizens.
The speaker of Ukraine’s parliament, Volodymyr Groisman, said the detention was a violation of international law because Goncharenko has diplomatic immunity. The speaker urged Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin to take urgent measures to have the parliament member released.
For many Russians, the Odessa fire remains one of the more painful episodes of the Ukraine conflict.
Sur le Kyiv Post le lien vers cette brève du NYT (citée ici intégralement) est illustré ainsi
Alexei Goncharenko, deputy of Ukrainian parliament, wearing t-shirt depicting Boris Nemtsov reading in Ukrainian " Heroes never die ", a hommage to a popular slogan used during last year’s pro-Western uprising in Ukraine, is pictured in Moscow on March 1, 2015 prior the march to honour opposition leader Boris Nemtsov. Moscow police detained Alexei Goncharenko ahead of the march over his alleged involvement in deadly riots in the southern Ukraine city of Odessa last year. “Police have detained me,” Alexei Goncharenko wrote on Facebook. “I did not shout anything, did not carry any banners or flags — they simply detained me over the T-shirt.”
AFP PHOTO/ ALEXEY KRAVTSOV