Brest: road police haunt owners of cars with “Pahonia” stickers
The cars of those who
have stickers with the national emblem “Pahonia” (which used to be the state
coat of arms of Belarus before Lukashenka’s rule) are photographed. The owners
are summonsed to the police and threatened with fines for violation of Article
194.13 of traffic rules in the case they don’t remove the stickers.
This strange campaign was launched by the Brest
road police on 3 February. According to one of the victims, head of the Brest city organization
of the Belarusian Popular Front Party, Viktar Klimus, more than ten persons
have been summonsed to the police already.
Mr. Klimus is convinced of the political character of the case, as policemen pay
attention only to the cars which are decorated with “Pahonia” and those who
have “Pahonia” and other stickers on their cars are told to remove only the
former.
