「除雪車で逮捕しに来て」雪かきさせたくて殺人でっち上げ　ウクライナ

【キエフＡＦＰ＝時事】ウクライナの男が、警察が自宅前の道路を除雪して逮捕しに来てくれることを期待して、人を殺したと虚偽の通報をした。北部チェルニヒウ州警察が15日、明らかにした。（写真は雪が積もったウクライナの首都キエフ中心部）
　警察によると、男は１３日夜、母親のパートナーの胸を刺して殺したと通報。除雪車で来なければ、自分を連行できないと伝えたという。しかし警察は除雪車では出動せず、ＳＵＶで男の自宅にたどり着くことができた。
　警官らは到着後すぐに被害者とされる男性を発見したが、「けがもなく無事で、誰にも襲われていなかった」。通報した男は、すぐにうそだったと自白したという。
　警察によると、男が通報する前に自治体が道路の除雪をしたが、男は「除雪の仕上がりに満足していなかった」。男は虚偽告訴罪で、１１９フリブナ（約４５０円）以下の罰金を科される可能性がある。
　ウクライナはここ数日、記録的な大雪に見舞われていた。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2021/02/17-14:15）

A Ukrainian man reported a fictitious murder in the hope that police would clear his snow-covered road when they came to arrest him, regional authorities said on Monday.
The man called police on Saturday evening to tell them he had killed his mother's partner by stabbing him in the chest.
But at the same time he immediately warned the police that they should come to him along with a snow plough, because there is no other way to get to him, Yuliya Kovtun, police spokeswoman for the northern Chernihiv regional police, told AFP.
She said officers did not take a snow plough and were able to get to the man's house in an SUV.
Immediately after arriving, they discovered that the relative was indeed at the house, but in one piece and unharmed -- no one had attacked him, she said, adding that the would-be killer immediately confessed to making a fake call.
Kovtun said municipal services had ploughed the road earlier on Saturday but he was not satisfied with the quality of the clearing.
The man, from the village of Grybova Rudnya, now faces a fine of up to 119 hryvnias (3.50 euros; $4.30) for reporting a false complaint.
Ukraine has been hit with record snowfall in recent days, with some 50 centimetres (20 inches) blanketing the country.
The ex-Soviet nation of 40 million is one of the poorest countries in Europe, and has struggled to battle endemic corruption and upgrade ageing infrastructure.