Attack at the lawyer of Odessa TV company “Odessa plus”
08.04.2004
In Odessa some strangers attacked Aleksandr Mizin, the lawyer of the local TV company “Odessa plus”, and stole his brief case with important documents. The attackers cruelly beat Mizin, and he fainted. Now the lawyer stays in hospital, his state is satisfactory. According to the words of Nina Zaytseva, the editor-in-chief of the TV company, the brief case contained the documents concerning the claim on the protection of honor and dignity handed by independent journalist Grigoriy Kvasniuk against “Odessa plus”. The collective of the company believes that the stolen documents had to settle the conflict in favor of “Odessa plus”.
(«Kievskie Vedomosti », 19 May 2003)