Unknown person attacks opposition contenders' picket in Homel

An unknown person attacked the members of nomination groups on collecting signatures in support of Andrej Sannikau, Uladzimir Nyaklyaeu, Jaraslau Ramanchuk and Mikalaj Statkevich on October 17 in Homel. The incident happened near "Homel" department store, where they collected signatures, informs BelaPAN. The member of Andrej Sannikau's nomination group Lilia Uvarava has told that the drunk citizen wanted to fight with her, pushed her, turned the table upside down, seized the passports of people who signed, beat people in the legs. He also lighted matches and threw them to signature collectors. 

After that the hooligan turned the tables, where the activists collected signatures for Nyaklyaeu and Ramanchuk, upside down. The member of Nyaklyaeu's nomination group Kanstantsin Zhukouski together with other signature collectors detained the hooligan and called the police.