Clashes in the Ukrainian Parliament

(B2) It's a bit of a habit. Thursday (December 4), during the appointment of parliamentary committees, several deputies of the Ukrainian parliament (Rada) came to blows. Luckily it calmed down quickly. Tempers are quite high in this chamber which sees several elected "fighters" from Maidan or even from the Eastern Front.

Several deputies — Sergey Kaplin, Yuri Levchenko, Simon Semenchenko — were there. according to my colleagues Hromadske Tv. Everything really started apparently, when someone tried to  silence Volodyr Parasiuk throwing at him you are not on the square » Maidanand an Parasiuk already quite annoyed who was the troublemaker in front of the new president of the Rada.

Parasiuk is no novice when it comes to hustle. He is indeed one of the main leaders of the Euromaidan movement. Coming from Lviv (west of the country), he distinguished himself in February, passionately denouncing the agreement concluded by the opposition with former President Yanukovych. An agreement painstakingly negotiated under the auspices of the European Ministers of Foreign Affairs (Polish, German and French). Requisitioning the microphone on Friday, he then turned the assembled crowd, recalling all the dead who had fallen on Maidan Square, denouncing an opposition ready to " shake hands with a killer (read the article on the New York Times).

(NGV)