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Chewbacca detained for lack of ID while driving Darth Vader to Ukraine election

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Chewbacca resisted four law enforcement officers, who were forced to pin him down on the hood of a van  to handcuff him. Photo: Reuters

The Star Wars character Chewbacca has been dragged before a court in Odessa, in perhaps the most surreal episode in local elections across Ukraine that have been both hotly contested and full of dirty tricks.

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The man inside the costume was fined 170 hryvnia (US$7.70) for the “administrative offence” of not being able to produce identification documents.

A statement posted on the official Instagram account of the Ukrainian police read: “Nothing unusual here, just Chewbacca detained for being without documents while driving Darth Vader to the elections in Odessa. The Sith Lord has already claimed this was illegal as Chewbacca is his pet and general servant and thus does not require documents.”

Police had earlier dragged Chewbacca away from a polling station and put him in a police van, accusing him of disrupting proceedings. Chewbacca said he had been there to support Darth Vader, who was attempting to vote at the polling station.

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