device. German stated that the chest wound resembled a seam with a hole sewn up around a black bruise. German asked the Belarusian Human Rights organization for help to facilitate an independent investigation by the international experts of Taraikovsky's death. German stated that she saw no exit wound on Taraikovsky's back. She requested to see the bullet, believing that the bullet was stuck inside Taraikovsky's body, but the police refused her request. This raised more suspicion that Taraikovsky was killed by live ammunition. After Taraikovsky's death, video footage was published where Taraikovsky is shown standing with his hand by his body, as blood poured from his chest. He collapsed in front of a line of riot officers and remained to lay motionless. Elena German declared that there is new video footage showing Taraikovsky being shot by the police. Public investigation On December 21, 2020, the representative of the public initiative "Belarusian People's Tribunal" Igor Makar published the materials of the preliminary investigation. They claim that Aleksandr Taraikovsky was deliberately and cynically killed by an employee of the Special Anti-Terrorist Unit "Almaz" Korovin Nikita Yuryevich(born in 1993), with the complicity of other unidentified employees of this special forces unit. Funeral and memory On 11 August 2020, a grassroots memorial appeared on the place of Taraikovsky's death. During the night it was destroyed by the municipal workers but reappeared the next morning. It was destroyed again and reappeared again. On 13 August, ambassadors of European Union countries, representatives of the US embassy and other countries laid flowers to the memorial. On 15 August, thousands of Belarusians gathered on Pushkin Square, where Taraikovsky died, to pay a tribute to him, lay flowers to the monument, and observe a moment of silence. They chanted "Tribunal” while the cars passing by were beeping in support. Pavel Latushko, director-general of Yanka Kupala National Academic Theatre, musician Lavon Volski, poet Vladimir Neklyaev, singer Max Korzh and Maria Kolesnikova, representative of former presidential candidate Viktor Babariko's headquarters, came to pay tribute to the victim. Taraikovsky's funeral ceremony was held at the same day and was attended by around 800 people, although only relatives and friends were initially invited. When the coffin with Taraikovsky was taken out of the ceremony hall, people knelt down, clapped, showed a sign of victory and shouted 'Glory to the hero!', 'Long live Belarus!', and then sang Magutny Bozha (Mighty God, a hymn used