{"id":8629,"date":"2016-02-09T18:03:19","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T15:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thekharkivtimes.com\/?p=8629"},"modified":"2016-02-09T17:07:27","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T14:07:27","slug":"the-saga-continues-new-witnesses-gave-evidence-on-the-case-of-kernes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thekharkivtimes.com\/2016\/02\/09\/the-saga-continues-new-witnesses-gave-evidence-on-the-case-of-kernes\/","title":{"rendered":"The saga continues: New witnesses gave evidence on the case of Kernes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yesterday, February 8, the court hearing of Kharkiv mayor\u00a0<strong>Gennady Kernes&#8217;<\/strong> case again took place in the Kiev District Court of Poltava.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">About ten activists of the Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists were near the court building. They brought posters and pasted the\u00a0courthouse using\u00a0them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Five new witnesses were called for the hearing. They were\u00a0not named at the previous meeting, so\u00a0they have not appeared in the media.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Safety specialist of the personal property in the hotel &#8220;National&#8221; <strong>Yuriy Gurin<\/strong>\u00a0explained that the\u00a0cameras, installed in the hotel,\u00a0work\u00a0in online mode, so there are no\u00a0any saved records. That evening he was at the hotel because of the banquet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hotel waitress <strong>Tatiana<\/strong> also gave evidence. She said that in the evening she served Gennady Kernes\u00a0during the\u00a0banquet held in the hotel restaurant.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The court also questioned the State Guard\u00a0<strong>Dmitry Starostenko<\/strong>, who claimed\u00a0that no conflict happened that day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Witnesses confirmed that about nine in the evening the mayor went to bathe in Sarzhin Yar.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Judge<strong> Antonov<\/strong>\u00a0set the next\u00a0hearing on the case of Gennady Kernes in the Kiev District Court of Poltava on 22 February.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8634\" src=\"http:\/\/thekharkivtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Bez-imeni-2-970x728-45d6.jpg\" alt=\"Bez-imeni-2-970x728-45d6\" width=\"970\" height=\"728\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thekharkivtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Bez-imeni-2-970x728-45d6.jpg 970w, https:\/\/thekharkivtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Bez-imeni-2-970x728-45d6-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thekharkivtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Bez-imeni-2-970x728-45d6-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thekharkivtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Bez-imeni-2-970x728-45d6-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/thekharkivtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Bez-imeni-2-970x728-45d6-100x75.jpg 100w, https:\/\/thekharkivtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Bez-imeni-2-970x728-45d6-180x135.jpg 180w, https:\/\/thekharkivtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Bez-imeni-2-970x728-45d6-238x178.jpg 238w, https:\/\/thekharkivtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Bez-imeni-2-970x728-45d6-640x480.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 970px) 100vw, 970px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8632\" src=\"http:\/\/thekharkivtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Bez-imeni-16.jpg\" alt=\"Bez-imeni-16\" width=\"902\" height=\"677\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thekharkivtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Bez-imeni-16.jpg 902w, https:\/\/thekharkivtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Bez-imeni-16-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thekharkivtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Bez-imeni-16-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thekharkivtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Bez-imeni-16-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/thekharkivtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Bez-imeni-16-100x75.jpg 100w, https:\/\/thekharkivtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Bez-imeni-16-180x135.jpg 180w, https:\/\/thekharkivtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Bez-imeni-16-238x178.jpg 238w, https:\/\/thekharkivtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Bez-imeni-16-640x480.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 902px) 100vw, 902px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Recall, <a href=\"http:\/\/thekharkivtimes.com\/2016\/02\/02\/court-kernes-was-outraged-by-prosecutors-questions\/\">at the last meeting<\/a>, the court questioned the guards of the mayor brothers <strong>Alexander<\/strong> and <strong>Sergei Vlasenko<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, February 8, the court hearing of Kharkiv mayor\u00a0Gennady Kernes&#8217; case again took place in the Kiev District Court of Poltava. 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