“His death is connected with the war in Ukraine. But we do not know exactly if he died as a civilian victim or fell as a soldier. We have his death certificate and a photo of the grave at our disposal,” Tomáš Mahr, chairman of the panel of the Regional Court in Pilsen, whose panel was to deal with the case, told Novinkám.
Leskiv was initially sentenced to two and a half years in prison by the Pilsen District Court for the crime of bodily harm. After the prosecutor’s appeal, the regional court overturned the sentence and submitted the case to the Prague High Court, stating that it could be an attempted murder.
The Supreme Court found him to be right and decided that the competent place to hear the indictment in the first instance is the regional court.
“Before we could order the main trial, we received a report from the Department of Migration and Asylum Policy of the Ministry of the Interior, which revoked the defendant’s permanent residence in the territory of the Czech Republic on the grounds that he died in Ukraine,” said the judge, adding that the report was accompanied by a death certificate , according to which Leskiv perished in March 2022 in the village of Buzova near the massacred Bucha in the Kyiv region.
“His wife, who submitted a photo of his grave from his birthplace in Drohobyč, was also questioned,” reads the resolution on the suspension of criminal prosecution.
The file shows that Leskiv attacked his girlfriend in April 2020 at a hostel in the center of Pilsen.
“Saying he was going to kill her, he attacked her with a knife with a 12cm blade and tried to hit her in the head and neck. The attacked woman tried to cover the wounds, while the defendant cut her hands and caused serious injuries,” the indictment states.
Czech, who fled to Donbas to fight for the separatists, was again given 20 years for terror
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