Biletsky Taps Journalist on Forehead for Asking Why National Corps Activists Pry Up Paving Stones

The leader of the National Corps called the journalist a “degenerate.”

The corresponding video was posted on YouTube by journalist Andriy Pavlovsky. The recording shows the journalist asking Andriy Biletsky whether the fact that asphalt was being destroyed during the setting up of tents was grounds for dispersing the rally. Biletsky replies that destroyed asphalt is not grounds for beating people, but “for degenerates like you [maybe it is]”.

After the journalist asked “why he is a degenerate,” Biletsky tapped the journalist's head several times, supposedly demonstrating the difference between “beating a person and tapping on the forehead.” After the journalist asked why Biletsky was hitting him on the forehead, activists pulled him away.

According to Andriy Pavlovsky, the question to Biletsky was asked by his colleague Oleksandr Chernenko.

Earlier, police dispersed a protest against the opening of the land market after National Corps activists set up tents on the roadway on Hrushevskoho Street. Police officers removed the tents and tried to carry them toward the Hotel Kyiv. Protesters ran to Constitution Square and began prying up paving stones in order to throw stones at law enforcers. In response to the violent actions, police officers chased the protesters down and beat them (to see all photos, switch the slider).

Journalist Yan Dobronosov published video of the activists' detention.