Ukraine initiates criminal proceedings against German deputies for visiting Crimea despite travel ban
The Ukrainian Prosecutor's Office of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea has initiated criminal proceedings as a result of the visit of German deputies from the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party to the peninsula.
The case has been initiated on the basis of an appeal from the Embassy of Ukraine in Germany concerning the violation of entry and exit procedures from the Temporarily Occupied Territory (p. 1 art. 332-1 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine prescribes up to three years of imprisonment).
"It was found out that on February 3, 2018, citizens of the Federal Republic of Germany, who planned to use their visit to meet representatives of the Russian occupation authorities to discuss ways to establish contacts with Germany, arrived in the Crimea in violation of the procedure of entry into and exit from the temporarily occupied territory," the website of the Prosecutor’s Office Autonomous Republic of Crimea informs.
As was reported earlier, nine German Deputies from three regional parliaments of Germany came to the Crimea on February 3rd in violation of Ukrainian legislation.