Hero Of The Day: 90-Year-Old Minsk Citizen Detained On BPR’s 100th Anniversary

Policemen did not allow Aliaksandr Karyzna to get to the concert near the Opera House.

On March 25, Aliaksandr Karyzna came to Yakub Kolas Square with a white-red-white flag, he was going to the concert near the Opera House, Salidarnasts reports.

Answering the question of Aleh Hruzdilovich, a Radio Svaboda journalist, if he was not afraid to take part in the Freedom Day procession forbidden by the authorities, which was to start from Yakub Kolas Square), the old man replied: "Well, I am 90 years old and I will be some kind of advertising." And he added: "If I'm alive, I'll march up to the Opera House."

However, the security officers were not let the 90-year-old participant in the celebration of the BPRs 100th anniversary attend the concert.

At 16.45, journalists spread the word that the elderly person was being kept at the Pershamaiski district police department, and his relatives were asked to help Aliaksandr Karyzna to get home.