- According to eyewitnesses, Bandarenka approached masked men on Wednesday who began to take off the white, red and white flags used by the opposition circles
- When Bandarenka said something to them, he was pushed hard by one of them, and then he was hit by two men. Finally he was put in a minibus and taken to the police station
- An hour and a half later an ambulance took him to the hospital. When he got to the operating room, he was already unconscious. Despite several hours of surgery, his condition did not improve and he died on Thursday evening
- This case sparked a wave of spontaneous solidarity actions with young people in many cities in Belarus. Living chains were made, flowers were laid and candles were lit under his photos. There were detentions
– I sincerely feel sorry for my parents. It is bad if a person loses his life, let alone a young person – said Lukashenka during an interview with the Belarusian and foreign media. These words were quoted by the Telegram channel “Pułierwogo”, which is close to Lukashenka.
Lukashenka stated that he was interested in the course of the investigation and warned the Investigative Committee that “this problem is going to take off”.
– And this morning, because everyone has started to accuse the militia again, I called the prosecutor general (Alexander – ed.) Szwied and said: take this case under closer scrutiny, so that later it would not be that the police and the Investigative Committee were investigating themselves – he noted .
The murder of Bandarenko
According to eyewitnesses, Bandarenka approached masked men on Wednesday who began to take off the white, red and white flags used by the opposition circles. When Bandarenka said something to them, he was pushed hard by one of them, and then he was hit by two men. Finally he was put in a minibus and taken to the police station. An hour and a half later an ambulance took him to the hospital. When he got to the operating room, he was already unconscious. Despite several hours of surgery, his condition did not improve and he died on Thursday evening.
The Investigative Committee announced on Friday that, according to the findings of the investigation, the police received a report on Wednesday that there had been a fight in Minsk between “aggressive residents hanging ribbons” and the people who took them off. “When police officers arrived, they found a man with injuries and signs of alcohol intoxication,” the Committee said. The man was taken to the police station in order – as the Committee reported – to investigate the circumstances of the incident, but “due to the deterioration of his health, an ambulance was called to him” and, despite receiving medical assistance, he died.
In response to the Committee’s announcement, the ambulance doctors published on the Telegram channel “Białe Chałaty” the Bandarenko discharge card, which stated that he had “0 percent alcohol in his blood”.
This case sparked off a wave of spontaneous actions of solidarity with young people in many cities of Belarus. Living chains were made, flowers were laid and candles were lit under his photos. There were detentions.
Lukashenko on deleting students
Lukashenka also addressed the issue of young people removed from the student register for participating in protests. As he said, he recommended the development of a mechanism to bring them back to university “under guarantees”.
“You have to come back to this matter someday and look at the deleted one. I have a practice in this: under guarantees, ”he said.
As he said, universities will set up committees that will include representatives of universities, including students, and “authorized plenipotentiaries that I have at universities. “They will assemble and consider all these statements. After all, you have to answer them. Parents write, many students write, ”he said.
According to him, about 300 people were kicked out, and some “are not really gifted people.” “I thought: we’ll lose them. Who do they need? Well, they will go to this Poland and let them work there. But they are not needed there, ”he announced.
And he added: “Various methods are possible, we do not need dangers in society.”
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