(RSF/IFEX) – RSF is expressing its concern about the assassination of journalist Igor Bondar in Odessa (in Ukraine’s south-western region). According to RSF’s information, on 16 May 1999, Bondar, 32, director of the AMT television station, was shot and killed in the city’s residential neighbourhood, as he was driving in a car with Boris Vikhrov, […]
(RSF/IFEX) – RSF is expressing its concern about the assassination of
journalist Igor Bondar in Odessa (in Ukraine’s south-western region).
According to RSF’s information, on 16 May 1999, Bondar, 32, director of the
AMT television station, was shot and killed in the city’s residential
neighbourhood, as he was driving in a car with Boris Vikhrov, the Odessa
court’s presiding judge. The magistrate was also killed in the attack. It
appears that this double murder was carried out by men with
Kalashnikov-style automatic weapons riding in a car. The public prosecutor’s
office opened an inquiry, under the authoritiy of the parliamentary
commission responsible for the fight against organised crime.
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