LVIV. March 11 (Interfax) - Members of the movement Right Sector and self-defense units have disrupted the introduction of Volodymyr Gural, the new prosecutor of the Lviv region, forcing him to leave, eyewitnesses told Interfax.
The witnesses said representatives of Right Sector of the self-defense unit called "Afghan hundred" came to a rally protesting Gural's appointment as prosecutor of the Lviv region, which was held near the House of Culture of Railroad sector Workers, where he was expected to be introduced.
When the prosecutor came into the building, he had a brief conversation with Ihor Kotsyuruba, leader of the Right Sector organization in Lviv. After that, Kotsyuruba led the prosecutor from the building and Gural got into his car and left.
Representatives of Right sector later told reporters they had protested Gural's appointment because they had information on his involvement in corruption and believes people cannot be appointed to such posts "without the approval of the public" following the recent events in the country.
"If they send a new person, about whom we have doubts, he can be lustrated. However, this person cannot be lustrated because he needs to be taken and thrown out of Lviv. We will block him everywhere. I am saying again that this precedent should show to the authorities who appoint different stupid people in Lviv that we will not accept it. People who have been involved in bribery and lawlessness have no right to be in top positions in Lviv," Kotsyuruba said.
The protesters reiterated that they intend to continue preventing the new prosecutor from working in his post, including in the prosecutor's office.
Gural was appointed prosecutor of the Lviv region on March 4. Before this appointment, he worked in the Prosecutor general's office and was deputy prosecutor of the Lviv region.