The other day, in the Prydneprovsky District Court of the city of Cherkassy, Judge Svetlana Pozaretskaya announced a decision in a civil case in the claim of Universal Bank to collect debt from a local resident, Timur Shch. The debtor did not agree with the court’s decision and hit the judge, as well as a judicial security officer.
In 2018, Timur Shch. took a loan from Monobank in the amount of 80 thousand hryvnia, but did not return the money to the bank on time, as a result of which a debt arose on the loan. Together with penalties, Timur Shch.’s debt to the bank as of January 2024 amounted to almost 94 thousand hryvnia. Timur Shch. actually refused to repay the debt, so the bank was forced to go to court.
It is interesting that in the trial Timur Shch. admitted that he had indeed taken a loan from the bank, but told the court that he would not repay the loan. Timur Shch. justified his position in an original way - in his opinion, the owners of Universal Bank are connected with the Russian Federation, which he “does not want to finance.”
On May 3, Svetlana Pozaretskaya made a decision in favor of Universal Bank and collected almost 97 thousand hryvnia from Timur Shch., along with the court fee.
As Svetlana Pozaretskaya reported, already during the court hearing Timur Shch. behaved quite emotionally and aggressively, and did not react to the judge’s comments. Therefore, a judicial security officer was called to the court hearing.
During the proclamation of the operative part of the court decision by the judge, Timur Shch., who was at a distance of about 4 meters from Svetlana Pozaretskaya, tried to attack the judge, accompanying his actions with obscene language.
Timur Shch. was actually prevented by a court guard who stood between the man and the judge.
However, during the struggle with the court guard, Timur Shch. was still able to hit Svetlana Pozaretskaya twice.
As the judge noted, due to Timur Shch.’s struggle with a judicial security officer, she and the court secretary were actually blocked in the courtroom.
Then Svetlana Pozaretskaya began shouting to attract the attention of her colleagues and court staff.
As a result, one of the court staff opened the doors of the courtroom from the outside, and Timur Shch. managed to push him into the corridor.
Judicial security officers detained Timur Shch. and handed him over to the police.
During the events in the courtroom, court property was also damaged - office equipment, blinds, etc.
Svetlana Pozaretskaya noted that if not for the actions of the Judicial Security officer, who was able to restrain Timur Shch., she and the court secretary could have received serious injuries.
Since Timur Shch. is 1.95 cm tall and weighs more than 100 kg, according to the judge, he could cause considerable harm to both the health of the judge and the health of the security guard and court secretary.
On the same day, criminal proceedings were registered under Part 2 of Art. 377 (intentional infliction of bodily harm on a judge in connection with activities related to the administration of justice) and Part 2 of Art. 345 (intentional infliction of bodily harm to a law enforcement officer in connection with the performance of his official duties) of the Criminal Code.
Subsequently, according to available data, Timur Shch. was detained, and then a preventive measure was chosen in the form of detention for a period of 60 days.
Let us note that, judging by information from the Register of Court Decisions, Timur Shch. is well known in the Prydneprovsky District Court - he has repeatedly been involved in lawsuits for debt collection and for committing petty hooliganism.
In connection with the incident at the court hearing, Svetlana Pozaretskaya reported to the Justice Council about the need to modernize the security system in the courts, for example, to equip courtrooms with “panic buttons” to call court security.
