A criminal case has been opened over the assault on the Azerbaijani businessmen in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Vuqar Karimoglu, one of the victims, told APA on Wednesday.
He said Kharkiv national police has opened a criminal case against the members of the Azov battalion on charges of armed assault, robbery, physical and material damage. An operational group has been created to identify the masked assaulters.
“Of the assaulted, another businessman and I are Azerbaijani citizens, two Ukrainian, and one Georgian. At the police department yesterday, we expressed our concern about the racist assault. Then the criminal case was opened. They said National Police had the situation under control. Today they have called us to the police department again,” he added.
Karimoglu said that they appealed to the Azerbaijani consulate in Kharkiv for legal support.
“We have been subjected to an assault and humiliated on ethnic basis. Our property has been plundered and we suffered significant damage. No one except the Azerbaijani diaspora in Kharkiv cares us,” the Azerbaijani businessman said, adding. “We know that the Azov forces were incited by Armenians. It is not secret that the Azov battalion is governed by the Interior Minister Arsen Avakov who had a great reputation here.”
Special forces of the Azov battalion of Ukraine's National Guard made an assault on Dec. 15 on a store owned by five Azerbaijani businessmen in the city of Kharkiv. Azov forces attacked the Azerbaijanis’ store selling Christmas trees and seized their all property. The forces insulted them and recommended them to sell those Christmas trees in Azerbaijan.
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