Ukraine’s SBU State Security Service has opened a criminal case into the display of a Nazi symbol at a shopping mall in Kyiv.
“At the SBU’s initiative together with Kyiv’s Prosecutor General’s Office No. 5 on February 19, 2019, an investigation into a crime under Part 1 of Article 436-1 of Ukraine Criminal Code (preparation, dissemination of Communist, Nazi emblems and propaganda of Communist and National-Socialist [Nazi] totalitarian regimes) based on the fact that a Nazi symbol was displayed at one of Kyiv’s shopping malls,” the SBU’s press center said on Facebook on Feb. 21.
The SBU said it would “harshly react to such acts and do everything necessary to bring the perpetrators of such acts to justice.”
As earlier reported by media and social platform users, unknown persons projected a swastika on the LED staircase in the Gorodok Gallery mall’s central hall in central Kyiv (near Pochaina metro station) on February 16, 2019. The symbol was illuminated in a white square on a scarlet background.
