Mariupol Police Do Not Confirm that Adventist Parishioners Were Beaten

The Mariupol City Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Donetsk Oblast consider untrue the information spread by the press service of the Seventh-day Adventist Church regarding the beating of their believers and ministers by unknown hooligans, representatives of the press service of the City Police Department reported to Ukrainian News.

“The situation was not quite as it was described by the representatives of the church: there was no beating, the participants of the conflict only pushed and insulted each other,” said the representatives of the press service. 

According to the report, during a service, three drunk men entered the territory of the church located in the former kindergarten. One of them expressed dissatisfaction with the fact that the parishioners use the building of his former kindergarten in a rude way. 

According to the police, the parishioners got into a heated argument. 

The participants pushed and insulted each other, but no believers were beaten.