Man detained in Lviv for knife attack on TCR serviceman
Kyiv • UNN
In Lviv, a 29-year-old man stabbed a TCC employee in the shoulder with a knife during a mobilization notice procedure. The attacker has been detained and faces up to five years in prison.
In Lviv, police detained a man who stabbed a Territorial Recruitment Center (TRC) serviceman, the Main Directorate of the National Police in the Lviv region reported on Tuesday, UNN writes.
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According to the police, on May 29, at around 12:10 PM on Khvylyovoho Street, an unidentified man stabbed a TRC serviceman who was part of a notification group, and then fled.
Medics diagnosed the victim with a laceration to the shoulder.
"Police established the identity and location of the perpetrator – a 29-year-old Lviv resident – and detained him in accordance with Article 208 of the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine," the police noted.
The detainee was reportedly served a notice of suspicion for committing a crime under Part 2 of Article 350 (Threat or violence against a public official or a citizen performing a public duty) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
The sanction of the article provides for punishment – restriction of liberty for a term of three to five years or imprisonment for the same term.
