Police finds no corpus delicti in the attack on a journalist in Zaporizhzhia

Wearing blue is the woman who attacked the 061.ua journalist Kateryna Klochko in Zaporizhzhia, screenshot from Kateryna Klochko's video by the IMI

Zaporizhzhia police found no corpus delicti in the July 19 attack on 061.ua photojournalist Kateryna Klochko by a woman protesting "unjust power cuts" in the city, said police captain Anna Tkachenko, chief of communications at the Zaporizhzhia National Police, to the Institute of Mass Information representative in Zaporizhzhia oblast.

"The report about the event has been entered into the Unified Record of Citizens' Complaints and Appeals. Police investigators looked into the situation and interviewed both sides of the conflict. Seeing as the citizen's actions do not constitute a criminal offense, there are no grounds for opening proceedings under Article 171 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine," she said.

Previously

061.ua photojournalist Kateryna Klochko was reporting on the rally against "unjust power cuts" in Zaporizhzhia on July 19 when a participant in the rally interfered with her filming. The woman disliked what the journalist was filming and tried to force her to film what she believed necessary.

She approached the correspondent, grabbed her by the arm, pushed her and forcibly turned her around. The journalist called the police and filed a statement on obstruction to her reporting.

As the journalists covering the event told the IMI representative, during the rally several people in the crowd shouted that the blackouts were not caused by a full-scale war and the Russian troops destroying Ukraine's energy infrastructure, but by the inaction and corruption of the authorities, etc. To date, similar rallies without officially declared organizers have already taken place in Zaporizhzhia and several cities in Poltava oblast. Calls for a similar rally in Cherkasy oblast have also been reported.