Former Belarusian policeman Aliaksandr Matsievich, who took part in the crackdown on the 2020 protests, has left for Lithuania, LRT reports. He works as a window installer in Lithuania and travels to Belarus without any problems. He faces deportation, but Matsievich said he would. appeal.
The Belarusian guy who beat up protesters in Lida works for a window installation company near Vilnius. His employer told LRT that he believed Matsievich, who said he didn’t hit protesters and that’s why she hired him.
“Yes, he works for my company,” said Jurijus Radiūnas, director of the window installation company Europos sagumo guarantees in Vilnius. “I know very well what happened in Belarus in 2020, I have relatives there. I knew he was a militiaman. That is why I asked him several times if he had participated in those repressions. He confided in me that he was not involved, I believed him and hired him, as I had no more information. I said, ‘Okay, work. ‘”
At the same time, Radiunas said that if the data that Matsievich beat the protesters is confirmed, he would fire him.
“I wouldn’t even talk to him if I knew,” the businessman said.
The head of the migration department, Evelina Gudzinskaite, said that if the data obtained about Matsievich is confirmed, “decisions will be made. “
LRT contacted the former militiaman himself, who told him that if he was deported he would not appeal the decision. At the same time, he refused to talk about his past.