DISINFO: The Nazis of Pravy Sektor are responsible for the massacre in Odessa on 2 May 2014
SUMMARY
Pianist Valentina Lisitsa's concert at La Fenice in Venice was cancelled because she protested in memory of the massacre in Odessa, carried out in 2014 by Pravi Sektor Nazis, and for having played on 9 May in the city of Mariupol, liberated by the Nazis from the Azov battalion.
RESPONSE
Recurrent pro-Kremlin narrative about the Odessa tragedy and about Nazi Ukraine.
There is no evidence that Pravy Sektor militants were responsible for the Odessa tragedy.
No trial has yet established the responsibilities of the different actors before a court. A total of 5 cases on trials and 3 investigations are currently ongoing. Media reported about the tragedy in May 2014: the BBC, the Guardian, the DW. A chronology of the events has been established (1 and 2) and a non-partisan documentary film by Ukrainian Channel 7 has collected testimonies: May 2nd without Myth.
Regarding the investigation, the United Nations Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine noted in its report in 2019: "Five years on, there has still not been any accountability for the killings of six and violent deaths of 42 individuals. Some of the criminal proceedings launched after the tragic events have stalled at the pre-trial investigation stage, while others did at the trial stage. This suggests a lack of genuine interest from the authorities to ensure justice for victims and accountability for perpetrators."
Moreover, Pravy Sektor is a nationalist movement not a Nazi one.
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