Christmas search: traces of Square searched in Siuchyks’ flat
Tatstsyana Siuchyk and her son had to leave the holy mass to be present during the search (video)
KGB
members visited activists of the Belarusian democratic movement instead
of Christmas carol singers on December 25. The flats of a human rights
activist Aleh Vouchak, screenwriter Uladzimir Halip, former presidential
candidates Andrei Sannikau and Ales Mihalevich, Sannikau’s press
secretary Alyaksandr Atroshchankau, journalist Natallya Radzina, the
office of the UCP and Euroradio have been searched… People in plain
clothes visited the flat of a human rights activist Vyachaslau Siuchyk
at about 12.
“A state Christmas celebration took place in our flat, - said Vyachaslau Siuchyk’s wife Tatstsyana in an interview with Euroradio. – They came up to the door at about 12, when I was at the holy mass together with my son. It was a festive mass celebrated by the bishop and my son served as a ministrant there. We had to leave the holy mass which is already a sin and to come home to welcome state guests”.
Four Minsk and Minsk Province KGB members showed a search warrant to Tatstsyana. It was motivated by the criminal case started in connection with the mass disorders that had taken place on December 19.
“It turned out that the KGB members were looking for some literature, maybe for correspondence or leaflets that would urge people to take part in mass disorders. Or objects that would prove that the inhabitants of the flat had something to do with the events that had taken place on December 19, - continues Tatstsyana Siuchyk. – However, they found nothing and confiscated the PC and discs that were not labeled”.
Witnesses left the Siuchyks’ flat at about 4.10 p.m. However, the people in plain clothes stayed and spent about 40 minutes with the woman tired of the search. Tatstsyana Siuchyk thinks that they were waiting for policemen from Central District Department of the Interior to show the door to the Euroradio reporter waiting in the staircase.
The police arrived at about 4.40 p.m. and made me leave. They said that some inhabitants had complained about a stranger in the lobby. KGB members left a minute later from the other exit.
“The lawlessness in our country after the election is indescribable, - says Tatstsyana Siuchyk. – It is impossible to access the behaviour of policemen, KGB members and ordinary citizens… It is impossible to explain. We are living in a nightmare. It looks like hell on Earth”.
“A state Christmas celebration took place in our flat, - said Vyachaslau Siuchyk’s wife Tatstsyana in an interview with Euroradio. – They came up to the door at about 12, when I was at the holy mass together with my son. It was a festive mass celebrated by the bishop and my son served as a ministrant there. We had to leave the holy mass which is already a sin and to come home to welcome state guests”.
Four Minsk and Minsk Province KGB members showed a search warrant to Tatstsyana. It was motivated by the criminal case started in connection with the mass disorders that had taken place on December 19.
“It turned out that the KGB members were looking for some literature, maybe for correspondence or leaflets that would urge people to take part in mass disorders. Or objects that would prove that the inhabitants of the flat had something to do with the events that had taken place on December 19, - continues Tatstsyana Siuchyk. – However, they found nothing and confiscated the PC and discs that were not labeled”.
Witnesses left the Siuchyks’ flat at about 4.10 p.m. However, the people in plain clothes stayed and spent about 40 minutes with the woman tired of the search. Tatstsyana Siuchyk thinks that they were waiting for policemen from Central District Department of the Interior to show the door to the Euroradio reporter waiting in the staircase.
The police arrived at about 4.40 p.m. and made me leave. They said that some inhabitants had complained about a stranger in the lobby. KGB members left a minute later from the other exit.
“The lawlessness in our country after the election is indescribable, - says Tatstsyana Siuchyk. – It is impossible to access the behaviour of policemen, KGB members and ordinary citizens… It is impossible to explain. We are living in a nightmare. It looks like hell on Earth”.
