The President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko commented on the information appearing in the media about the 31-year-old Roman Bondarenko , who died after being beaten by unknown persons in the Minsk courtyard, known as “the square of changes “. BelTA informs about it in its Telegram -channel.
According to him, the “stuffing” is done on the eve of the next Sunday, in order to hold mass protests. “True, we must pay tribute to the relatives, they said: no, stop, guys, thanks, helped and so on, we want to bury him calmly, in a Christian way. Even Catholics (he is Orthodox), in order to drag this procession to the center, to the Red Church Well, I say that there are sensible people (…). There is terrible pressure, “Lukashenko said.
He promised that law enforcement next week will release truthful information about the tragic incident … “Everything will be reported to you in the best possible way – what happened, how it happened, who organized it, and so on. To your surprise, it will be interesting,” the president added.
31-year-old Bondarenko died in hospital on November 12. He was hospitalized with numerous injuries from the Central District Department of Internal Affairs, underwent surgery and was in a coma. The neighbors of the deceased said that on the eve unknown people in masks came to their courtyard and began to remove white-red-white ribbons, which are used as protest symbols. Bondarenko came out to ask what was going on, after which he was “professionally detained”.
In Investigative Committee said that there was a fight” between aggressive locals hanging tapes and those filming them. ” Policemen who arrived at the scene found Bondarenko “with bodily injuries and signs of alcohol intoxication.”
In Belarus, for the fourth month, mass protests continue after the presidential elections on August 9, according to which Alexander Lukashenko, who ran for the sixth term, received 80 percent of the vote.