Attempts to hinder Belsat shooting item about painted monument to Lenin

A film crew of Belsat TV channel came to Navahrudak on November 11 to shot an item about the monument to Lenin poured with paint.

As Syarhei Vouchak, head of the local branch of the Belarusian Christian Democracy, told the BCD press service, traffic militia officers tried to impede the work of journalists.

“My car was stopped by traffic militia officers,” Syarhei Vouchak said. “They began to invent reasons to draw up a report. They said the back seats were removed, which was forbidden.”

According to Vouchak, Belsat film crew’s car was the real aim of the local traffic militia.

“As they saw the car with journalists was driving away, they let me alone and tried to catch Belsat journalists. They caught them up, made them stop and began to look for reasons to detain them. They failed to find anything and had to set the car free,” the activist said.

We remind that the monument to Lenin in the center of Navahrudak was poured with paint at night of November 7. “Young Front” activist Darya Bakhur was questioned in the case of the painted monument.