Suspect in murder of former Ukrainian MP Farion is junior footballer
Pravda Ukraine
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.
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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