In the centre of Lviv, a disturbance involving several dozen teenagers and young men broke out at night on Svobody Avenue. The incident, which occurred on 24 October at around midnight, was reported to the 102 emergency line, the Lviv Region Patrol Police have stated.
According to the caller, those involved in the incident were intoxicated, behaving aggressively, shouting obscenities, scuffling and otherwise disturbing public order.
A response and investigation team and officers from other units of Lviv District Police Department No. 1 and the Lviv Region Police, patrol units of the Lviv Region Patrol Police Department, as well as servicemen of the National Guard of Ukraine, were dispatched to the scene. Law enforcement officers broke up the disturbance and took several of its most active participants to the local police station for questioning; minors were questioned in the presence of their parents.
Three of the men brought in were issued with penalty notices under Article 173 of the Code of Ukraine on Administrative Offences (petty hooliganism). The article provides for a fine of between three and seven tax-free minimum incomes, or between forty and sixty hours of community service, or between one and two months of corrective labour with a deduction of twenty per cent of earnings, or up to fifteen days of administrative arrest.
In addition, one of the participants, a 25-year-old Lviv resident, was held liable under Article 178 of the Code of Ukraine on Administrative Offences (consumption of alcoholic or low-alcohol beverages in places prohibited by law, or appearing in a public place while intoxicated). This article provides for a warning or a fine of between one and five tax-free minimum incomes.
No one has contacted the police with complaints or statements regarding the incident. Law enforcement officers are establishing the circumstances of the disturbance and identifying its instigators for further prosecution.