The lawyers of Metropolitan Pavel (Lebed), Governor-General of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, demanded the dismissal of the judge due to the refusal of their petition, but they were again denied. This was reported by the Ukrainian edition of “Strana.ua”.
“The lawyers of Metropolitan Pavel, the abbot of Lavra, demanded the dismissal of the judge. They justified their decision by the fact that, based on what part of the doubt was built, the judge did not comply with their request to meet with the original audio files, ”the statement said.
The judge denied this request.
April 1, Governor-General of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra Metropolitan Pavel (Lebed) reached to the Kiev Shevchenkovsky District Court, for which a restraining order was chosen. The metropolitan is charged with two articles of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
Formerly a lawyer for the Governor-General of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra declarationthat the court decided to bring Metropolitan Pavel (Lebed) by force on the evening of April 1st. At that time, the Metropolitan was in the hospital.