The murder of Farion – the court kept the suspect in custody – Ukraine
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In Lviv, the appeals court left unchanged the preventive measure for Vyacheslav Zinchenko, a suspect in the murder of linguist Iryna Farion. The suspect will continue to be in custody.
This is reported by “Suspilne”.
On December 5, the Lviv Court of Appeals considered an appeal against Zinchenko's preventive measure and upheld the previous court's decision to keep him in custody without the right to bail until January 12, 2025.
The lawyers of Farion, the suspect in the murder, asked the court to change his preventive measure to 24-hour house arrest with the wearing of an electronic bracelet. Arguing this is the lack of any direct evidence against Zinchenko, and the fact that he has not been convicted before.
In turn, the prosecutors stated that they consider the suspicion of the person involved in the case to be well-founded, therefore they asked to leave the preventive measure unchanged -…
