Ihor Humeniuk: a victim of Ukraine judicial system

Ihor Humeniuk: a victim of Ukraine judicial system

Ihor Humeniuk was accused of throwing a grenade at the National Guard members near the building of the Verkhovna Rada on August 31, 2015, during riots over the vote on the “special status” of the ORDLO. As a result, four law enforcement officers died, 65 people (according to other data, about 130) were injured.

Look at ping pong between law enforcement and protesters.

There is another person involved in the case – Serhiy Krayniak. He is accused of complicity in the crime. According to the investigation, Kraynyak allegedly created a smoke wall so that Humeniuk could throw a grenade unnoticed. The court released Krayniak and put him under house arrest. Currently, he is fighting near Bakhmut.

Stepan Khmara, a fighter for the independence of Ukraine in the 20th century, a Ukrainian politician, a human rights defender, a doctor, a dissident during the perestroika period, a long-term political prisoner of Soviet concentration camps, a People’s Deputy of Ukraine said: “I don’t think we’ll ever know the details of the murder of the Ukrainian patriot Ihor Humenyuk.”

He added the following.

“However, no one will convince me that Ihor carried in explosives. I know very well, from my own experience, that it is impossible. And this begs the question: “Who benefited from Ihor’s death?”

Those who fabricated the case from the very beginning, those who, contrary to law, kept him in custody for eight years, violating the terms. The scumbag prosecutors who conducted the procedural support of the case, the judges who deliberately dragged out the case, because the decision had to be unambiguous – acquittal, since there was no evidence base for deprivation of liberty (everything was based on assumptions, that is, cases).

They couldn’t drag out the case any further, especially since Ihor had repeatedly asked to go to the front. Before that, he had taken an active part in the Maidan and fought on the Eastern front in 2014-2015.

A final decision had to be made at last. The current, as well as the previous Poroshenko government, did not want to release the Svoboda member. So they decided to destroy and do away with it.

I’d like to return to the events of 2015. On that day, August 31, I was in the premises of the VRU together with Viktor Shyshkin. The explosion broke out when the plenary session had already ended. All Poroshenko deputies unanimously voted for amending the Constitution of Ukraine in the first reading (granting autonomy to Donbas). Some of the MPs had already left, and people who gathered near the VRU began to leave too.

Avakov is famous for organizing dirty cases. He organized Sashko Bily, fabricated a case against pediatric surgeon Julia Kiyan Kuzmenko, Andriy Antonenko and Yana Dugar, allegedly for organizing the murder of journalist Sheremet (the case hasn’t been closed yet, the bullying and humiliation of honest people continues, the trials are ongoing).

Let me remind you that Avakov, this notorious adventure seeker, was involved in seven serious criminal cases (misappropriation of land plots, embezzlement of state property, budget funds, etc.).

When Poroshenko-Yatsenyuk came to power, all those cases were not closed, they were suspended. I don’t know what that criminal Avakov is doing now. Other so-called law enforcement agencies, like the SBU, the DBR and others, have been fabricating such cases too. 

I’d like to remind you that the case against Stanislav Krasnov (now in his second year at the front) is still pending. He blew up the Crimea Titan power line, which Poroshenko ordered to restore after the first blow-up and it was restored (this is how Poroshenko cared for Russia’s defense capability and the FSB-SBU henchmen carried out criminal orders).

A similar case was fabricated against Donbas combatant Semen Semenchenko  and Tornado member Ruslan Onyshchenko. And there are plenty of such cases.

It was for a reason that I mentioned those cases in connection with yesterday’s tragedy in the Shevchenko court. The murder of the patriot Ihor Humenyuk, organized by scums from the so-called law enforcement agencies, should alert the patriotic public.

The mafia system is ready to commit any crime against the patriots. I can’t rule out that there’s a danger for Semen Semenchenko and the legendary counter-intelligence officer Colonel Chervinsky, Tornado member Ruslan Onyshchenko and other active patriots.”

Another important fact in Ihor Humeniuk case, which was not taken into account by the judicial system, but is that it was russian army grenade model that blasted near Ukraine’s Parliament – Verkhovna Rada in Kyiv back in August 2015.

Does Ukrainian PARTIOT Ihor Humenuik might use russian made grenade that day?

Defendant Ihor Humeniuk, who was killed in the blast in the Shevchenkivskiy District Court of Kyiv on July 5, felt morally broken and appealed for release in order to go to the front, but he could hardly blow himself up, Oleksandr Svyrydovskyi, Ihor’s lawer said in a comment to Ukrainska Pravda.

According to Svyrydovskyi, the end of August would have marked eight years since Humeniuk had been held in a pre-trial detention center without a sentence, and “it was clear that he was morally broken.” Svyrydovskyi, who was present at the July 5 hearing, added that he was worried about the possibility of Humeniuk being sentenced to life in prison.

Svyrydovskyi also informed that Ihor “repeatedly appealed for release in order to go to fight and defend the country. Since the beginning of the anti-terrorist operation, he spent 1.5 years in hot spots as part of the Sich battalion. Then there was a rotation and he was offered a job in the protection of public of order – i.e. to chase the nationalists. He didn’t want to, resigned and planned to join the ranks of the Armed Forces. He went through the revolution, hot spots, he had PTSD and saw everything in black and white.”

Svyrydovskyi added that Humeniuk “had not yet testified in court and had not pleaded guilty.”

The person was in pre-trial detention without being TESTIFIED BY UKRAINIAN COUT during 8 years.

We repeat it: during 8 YEARS!

The hearing started at 3:35 p.m. On this day, the evidence was considered. Then there was a request to extend Humeniuk’s detention for another 2 months. When Svyrydovskyi went to receive the court’s decision, he heard “a blow”. “There were 5 of them with different frequency. We couldn’t understand whether they were explosive packages or metal hitting metal… Then we heard three grenade explosions and a volley of automatic gunfire… We were taken out of the courthouse,” said Svyrydovskyi. 

According to the law enforcement officers, Humeniuk blew himself up with a grenade, and two law enforcement officers were injured during the assault.

Where is the truth? No one will know.

The only you should know, dear reader, this is how judicial system in Ukraine works: instead of justice, a person spend 8 years in pre-trial detention without a court verdict and without even being testified by the court.

We were following this last event in the court with Ihor Humeniuk, snd what we can figure out in chronology is the following:

  • it was immediately reported that Igor Humeniuk was communicating with the court online,
  • then it was reported that Ihor closed himself in the restroom,
  • then and at the briefing near the court the law enforcement said that Humeniuk ran out into the yard to the car that brought him, and then the head of the guard service, who for some reason was outside, shot at air, then Ihor Humeniuk returned to the premises.

Official version, which is currently circulating, was drafted later.

So, why did they do away with Ihor Humeniuk?

Maybe, because Ihor was one among those Euromaidan patriots at the Institutska St. in Kyiv, back in February 20, 2014 defending Ukraine’s freedom from the russian FSB agents among top officials in Ukraine’s authority? We assume that those who failed to do away Ihor those days during the Revolution of Dignity, did it now.

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