The hastily-sprayed capital letters read “For the murder of Vitold Ashurak”. “He was an honest person, he fought for truth, he was kind, very kind. “Vitold said that he would never be involved in politics, and would never be involved in any party,” Pantus remembers. The man apologised, Andrej recalls, and said that as Ashurak’s body was being removed from the freezer, it had fallen and there was damage to the head. So you can’t talk about safety in this country.”A favourite phrase that Ashurak used to say, Pantus recalls, was “it’s easy to tell the truth”.

Source: The Irish Times June 04, 2021 17:00 UTC