Investigators asking to help identify witness who saw planting of bomb under Sheremet's car
Investigators have established that there was a witness, who could have seen the people who planted an explosive device on the car, in which Belarusian journalist Pavel Sheremet was killed, in the early hours of July 20.
"Yes, there really is a witness. Unfortunately, we haven't identified him so far. Therefore, we are asking journalists and people who are watching [the briefing] to help establish this person, and if he (the witness) is watching this show, [we ask him] to get in touch with us via a "hot line" or the "102" phone line. His testimony is very important to us, to the investigators," head of the Criminal Investigation Department of the National Police of Ukraine Dmytro Holovin said at a briefing in Kyiv on Thursday.
He noted that this witness is a young man, 180 cm high, who was carrying a black backpack with two reflective stripes on the said night.
Holovin noted that the witness was moving in the opposite direction from that of the suspected criminals along Ivana Franka Street at 02:44 on July 20.
Journalist Sheremet was killed in explosion of the car in the downtown Kyiv on July 20. The car belonged to the Ukrayinska Pravda co-founder Olena Prytula, who was not aboard.
