The court in Kiev began preliminary hearing on the murder of the Elder

KIEV. 9 Feb. UNN. Today in the Shevchenko district court of Kyiv began the preparatory court session on the murder of journalist and pismenica Olesya Elderberry, reports UNN.

The lawyer accused Andrey Fedur demands a trial by jury, and all statements of withdrawal from the judges that then formed the jury panel of two provada and three jurors.

Judges, in turn, noted that today there is a preliminary hearing, not the merits.

“We have to decide whether to appoint the case for hearing on the merits,” said the presiding judge Oleg Linnik.

Earlier, the lawyer had stated that the suspects in the murder of journalist Olesya Elderberry Andrew Medvedko and Denis Polishchuk will require that the trial was assigned trial jury.