Lawyers said that they filed a petition that their client wanted to join the contract to the rifle company of the 129th separate heavy mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces (military unit A7224), and the accused will be able to join the next meetings.
Lawyer Alexander Shadrin noted that Manger took part in the ATO and has military experience, and in the replenishment of the troops now an “acute need”. In addition, he allegedly will not be able to hide from the service.
Manger himself emphasized that he has been behind bars for five years, while his “duty as a person is to stand on the defense of the state.”
His former assistant Alexei Levin, also accused of Gandzyuk, played in court. He called his ex-chef a man who “did not make freedom, but to war.” And those who demanded punishment in court called “state traitors.”
The Ukrainian lawyer, a soldier of Masi Nayyem, wrote on Facebook that, in his opinion, thanks to the army service, Manger wants to avoid responsibility for the murder of Gandzyuk.
“If the manger is not punished, then the order of the murder with the help of the military will be repeated. Let me remind you, the manger was the organizer, the executor was former atoshniki,” said Nyem.
According to journalists, the court rejected the petition of the lawyers to join the manger to the army.
In addition, as HromadSke writes, Manger played in court in Russian. In response to this, from the hall sounded: “The state language is Ukrainian.”
Context
July 31, 2018 Gandzyuk was doused with sulfuric acid At the entrance of her house in Kherson. She received chemical burns of more than 30% of the body, the acid fell on the back, head, arm and eyes. On November 4, 2018, the activist died.
The investigation considers Manger a customer, and Levin as the organizer of the crime. They put forward suspicions under Part 3 of Art. 27, part 2 of Art. 28, part 2 of Art. 121 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (the organization of the commission by preliminary conspiracy by a group of persons of intentional serious bodily harm, which has the nature of a special torment that entailed the death of the victim).
At the end of July 2020, the office of the Prosecutor General transferred to the court an indictment against Manger and Levin. On August 28, a consideration of the case began in the Dnieper district court of Kyiv.
During the pre -trial investigation, Levin refused to cooperate with the investigation. Manger declared his innocence and claimed that he was not familiar with Gandzyuk. Another person involved in the case – Igor Pavlovsky – on October 1 stated at the court session that the manan is the customer of the murder of the activist.
In June 2023, the court Dniprovsky district court of Kyiv The Levin and Levin found guilty, but in July 2024 the court began to re-consider the appeal.
