Suspect in murder of former Ukrainian MP Farion is junior footballer
Thursday, 25 July 2024, 17:16
Slidstvo.Info journalists identified the man suspected of shooting Iryna Farion in Lviv on 19 July, as Viacheslav Zinchenko.
Source: Slidstvo.Info
Details: According to the article, the suspect is 18-year-old Viacheslav Zinchenko. According to the reports, Zinchenko played for the Dnipro football squad at the local young sports school as of 2023, and competed in the Pulse tournament as a member of the Juniors team a month prior to the Farion murder.
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On 25 July, police seized him in Dnipro on suspicion of premeditated murder.
Background:
- Volodymyr Zelenskyy reported that an 18-year-old individual suspected of murdering linguist and former MP Iryna Farion was detained in the city of Dnipro.
- According to Ihor Klymenko, Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, the 18-year-old suspect is a resident of Dnipro. He rented at least three apartments in Lviv while preparing for Farion’s assassination. Investigators currently believe that the shooter was only a hitman.
- Ukrainska Pravda obtained a photo of the 18-year-old detainee suspected of murdering Iryna Farion.
- Law enforcement officers are completing procedural actions against the 18-year-old detainee suspected of the murderer of Iryna Farion, a linguist, professor at Lviv Polytechnic National University and former Ukrainian MP, after which he will be taken to the city of Lviv.
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