The Metropolitan Police detained MP Kaplin for storming the Justice Ministry

20 December 2017, 15:42 | The Company 
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Together with them, another 16 people were arrested, who, accompanied by politicians, attempted to enter the building of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine. As reported by the press service of the Metropolitan Police, about ten o'clock in the morning received information that 30 people entered the Ministry of Justice on Rylsky Lane and break doors.

On a place of event there have arrived policemen, investigatory-operative group and employees of special division. Already in place, law enforcers established that one of the People's Deputies came into the ministry building with a support group, leaving a poster on the doors in which the lock was broken.

Against the detainees, a criminal case is open on the article of the Criminal Code of Ukraine Hooliganism.

At the same time, the press office of People's Deputy Sergei Kaplin said that the majority of the members of the political council of the Socialist Party of Ukraine, together with the head of the political force Kaplin, were removed from the Ministry of Justice through the back door and closed in the car.

The politician on his Facebook page wrote that ten members of the Socialist Party and two deputies are being taken by three dozen security officials on Herzen.

According to him, all of them were detained when they came to the Ministry of Justice to find out the reasons why the agency is blocking the activities of the Socialist Party.

Recall, in October, MP Sergei Kaplin said that he was elected head of the Socialist Party.

As reported URA-Inform, People's Deputy of Ukraine Sergei Kaplin axed the door to the office of the mayor of Poltava Alexander Mamaia. November 18 Kaplin led the protesters who invested in the construction of a house in Poltava, and who came that day under the walls of the Poltava City Council to demand that the authorities promptly put the house into operation.

Источник: УРА-Информ