A shell casing from a sporting bullet was found at the scene of Farion's murder - Interior Ministry

A shell casing from a sporting bullet was found at the scene of Farion's murder - Interior Ministry

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July 26 2024, 08:42 AM  •  13342 views

A shell casing from a sporting bullet was found at the scene of the murder of linguist Iryna Farion. According to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, these cartridges entered Ukraine in 2017-2018 in the amount of one million pieces, and their origin is being established.

A shell casing from a sporting bullet was found at the scene of the murder of linguist Irina Farion. A specific bullet, not a combat bullet. This was announced by Interior Minister Igor Klymenko during a briefing on Friday, a correspondent of UNN reports.

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"We have conducted several investigative experiments regarding this crime. We were at the crime scene, we saw where the body was lying, where the criminal was," Klymenko said.

According to him, within a week, law enforcement officers fully established the timing and timing of the suspect's life during the 10 days he was preparing to commit the crime.

A shell casing from a sports bullet was found at the crime scene , and it is currently being examined. But we know that these cartridges came to Ukraine in 2017-2018 in the amount of one million pieces. It is a specific bullet, not a combat bullet. So now we have to establish where this bullet was purchased. Perhaps on the black market, or purchased earlier

- Klymenko said.

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Addendum

On July 19, an unidentified person shot at Iryna Farion, a linguist and professor at Lviv Polytechnic. The woman was taken to the hospital with a head wound in an extremely serious condition. Iryna Farion died in the hospital.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy reportedthat on July 25, an 18-year-old man was detained in the city of Dnipro, allegedly involved in the premeditated murder of Iryna Farion.

According to Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko , law enforcement officials have enough evidence to claim that it was an 18-year-old boy detained in Dnipro who shot at linguist Iryna Farion. According to him, the investigation lasted 139 hours.

The police reported earlier that they had several versions of the murder of linguist Iryna Farion, including public and political activities and personal animosity. Law enforcement officers found a shell casing after the shooting and do not rule out a "Russian trace" in the crime.

Prosecutors will insist on applying a pre-trial restraint in the form of detention without bail to the 18-year-old suspect in the murder of linguist Irina Farion.