Farion murder suspect had been preparing for attack for at least 2 months - Interior Ministry
Kyiv • UNN
The 18-year-old suspect in the murder of Irina Farion had been preparing for the attack for at least 2 months. The prosecutor's office will request an arrest without bail for the suspect detained in Dnipro.
The 18-year-old suspect in the murder of linguist and public figure Iryna Farion had been preparing for the attack for at least 2 months. This was stated by the Minister of Internal Affairs Ihor Klymenko during a telethon, UNN reports.
"At least he had been preparing for this for 2 months," Klymenko says of the suspect's preparations.
He also said that the suspect had changed his place of residence at least three times, and that he bought the Panama he was in during the murder of Iryna Farion back in May 2024.
Addendum
The Lviv Regional Prosecutor's Office reported to UNNthat the prosecutor's office will insist on applying a preventive measure of detention without the possibility of bail to the 18-year-old suspect.
Recall
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 said that on July 25, an 18-year-old manwas detained in Dnipro city, allegedly involved in the premeditated murder of Iryna Farion.
According to Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko, law enforcement officers have enough evidence to claim that it was an 18-year-old man 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 Irina Farion, including public, political activity and personal animosity. Law enforcement officers found a shell casing after the shooting and do not rule out a "Russian trace" in the crime.