During the late night hours of Saturday, 23 and the early morning hours of Sunday, 24 June yet another attack was perpetrated by neo-Nazis against a Romani encampment in Ukraine. A Romani man was killed and others injured, including a 10-year-old boy.
Police have arrested seven attackers involved. According to the initial reporting, an organized neo-Nazi group is behind the attack.
"On 23 June at 23:25 a police official announced that a group of unidentified masked persons had attacked a camp where Romani citizens were living in the forest on the outskirts of Lviv," Ukrainian Police reported. According to the head of the Ukrainian National Police, Sergij Knyazjev, seven youths have been arrested who are suspected of having participated in the attack.
The attackers were aged between 16 and 17 and are Lviv residents. The 20-year-old organizer of the attack was also arrested.