Un mort et de nombreux policiers blessés devant le Parlement ukrainien

La réforme constitutionnelle, souhaitée par les Occidentaux conformément aux accords de paix de Minsk signés en février, est au cœur de débats acharnés en Ukraine, où beaucoup la voient comme une tentative de légaliser de facto le contrôle par les rebelles d’une partie de l’est industriel du pays.

« … souhaitée par les Occidentaux,… » certes, mais prévue par les Accords de Minsk de février. C’est le point 11.

Il est vrai que ces mêmes accords prévoyaient, au point 4, un dialogue entre les parties, dialogue qui n’a absolument jamais été même envisagé.
►https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minsk_II

Et dans le Parlement, ce n’est pas beaucoup mieux.

Mayhem inside, outside Rada as parliament passes decentralization bill
▻http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/mayhem-inside-outside-rada-as-parliament-passes-decentralization-bill-3968

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Mayhem broke out at Ukraine’s parliament on Aug. 31 – inside and outside – as lawmakers passed the first reading of a controversial bill on decentralizing the country’s system of government.

Inside the parliament, the Radical Party of Oleh Liashko attempted to derail voting by blocking the parliament tribune and sounding klaxons as lawmakers spoke for and against the bill.
Outside, protesters attacked police with sticks and snatched riot shields from officers, as massed ranks of police formed a heavy cordon around the parliament building. Flags of the right-wing Svoboda (Freedom) Party and the ultranationalist Right Sector group waived.

One riot officer was reported killed when a protester threw a grenade at police. Around fifty other policemen were wounded in the attack, Ukrainian media have reported.

Explosion de la grenade
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DinAxLyR7II

Dans les instants qui suivent, beaucoup de blessés entassés derrière la colonnade.
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlqGFW8c6Qw

UPDATES: Riot policeman killed, several wounded in grenade attack outside nation’s parliament
▻http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/riot-police-severely-wounded-in-grenade-attack-outside-nations-parliament-

One National Guard serviceman was killed and several policemen badly wounded on Aug. 31 when an explosive device was thrown at them from among a crowd of far-right Svoboda Party and Right Sector organization protesters outside parliament.
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Avakov said that the demonstrator who threw the grenade at the police had also been detained. He is a member of Svoboda and a fighter of Svoboda’s Sich volunteer battalion, he added.

Avakov blamed Svoboda and its leader Oleh Tyahnibok for the clashes. Tyahnibok denied the accusations and attributed the clashes to a government-orchestrated provocation.

▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwYlRie4IPk

Situation at Ukrainian parliament building becomes normal
▻http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/situation-at-ukrainian-parliament-building-becomes-normal-396890.html

The situation at Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada building has stabilized, law enforcers are staying at the incident site, an Interfax correspondent reports.

brève à 18:29 locales, 17:29 à Paris

Two journalists, including Frenchman, injured in central Kyiv
▻http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/two-journalists-including-frenchman-injured-in-central-kyiv-396880.html

Some 56, including two journalists, were injured in the clashes breaking out near Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada building on Aug. 31, deputy head of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc faction Oleksiy Honcharenko said.

(intégralité de la brève)

Arsen Avakov: Some 122 hospitalized after being injured outside Rada
▻http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/arsen-avakov-some-122-hospitalized-after-being-injured-outside-rada-396887

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One hundred and twenty-two people have been hospitalized after being injured in clashes outside the building of the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada on Aug. 31; eleven of them are critical, Interior Minister Arsen Avakov has said.

Galerie de 22 photos
▻http://www.kyivpost.com/multimedia/photo/clashes-near-verkhovna-rada-396862.html

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Deux brèves sur les victimes (en plus du policier mort)

Ukrainian Health Ministry : 44 people asked for paramedics, 21 sustain gunshot wounds after blast in central Kyiv
▻http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/ukrainian-health-ministry-44-people-asked-for-paramedics-21-sustain-gunsho

Forty-four people have turned to paramedic brigades for medical assistance after clashes outside the Verkhovna Rada, 21 of them with gunshot wounds, the Ukrainian Health Ministry has said.

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French journalist injured near Rada in Kyiv has cerebral concussion, Ukrainian reporter injured in leg
▻http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/french-journalist-injured-near-rada-in-kyiv-has-cerebral-concussion-ukrain

Ukrainian and French journalists injured near the Verkhovna Rada sustained different injuries, the public relations department of the Ukrainian Interior Ministry’s main department in Kyiv said.

(avec comme souvent avec le KP des précisions supplémentaires dans le titre)

Logiquement, ce serait le moment pour Porochenko d’aller au bout de la reprise en main des milices nationalistes, déjà progressivement amalgamées dans la Garde nationale. Mais,
• il est face à des hurluberlus armés jusqu’aux dents, qui ne se laisseront pas faire,
• dont on a du mal à mesurer le poids réel dans l’opinion publique,
• le discours anti-oligarque et anti-corruption est un terrain qui leur est plus que favorable puisque le bilan du président sur ces points est plus que maigre
• ce qui fait que son soutien à lui doit être en réalité assez faible (mais celui de I. Tymochenko que l’on voit s’opposer violemment à la réforme constitutionnelle au parlement est encore plus marginal…)
• et il y a des élections (municipales) dans 3 mois.

Le rapport des observateurs de l’OSCE

Spot Report by the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) : Protest outside national Parliament in Kyiv turns violent | OSCE
▻http://www.osce.org/ukraine-smm/179251

On 31 August beginning at 09:00hrs, the SMM monitored protests in front of the national Parliament (Verkhovna Rada) building in Kyiv. Some 3,000 persons (male and female of all ages) carrying “Svoboda”, “Radical Party” and “Ukrop” flags were protesting against constitutional amendments that were being voted on inside the Parliament. The event was initially peaceful and orderly with no signs of unrest. During both the morning and afternoon, the building was heavily secured by a ring of riot police (approx. 1,000) and in addition national guards (approx. 1,000) with anti-riot equipment. Former Members of Parliament and current leaders of “Svoboda” and “Radical Party” were visible in the crowd of protesters.
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