Duma wants to punish the looters. It is better to increase the standard of living, experts believe

Next week, the Duma Committee on the Legislation will consider the bill of the Member of the Security Committee of Gennady Gudkov on the return of articles on looting in the Criminal Code. To the looters, the author of the bill considers not only those who assign someone else's property on the battlefield, during a technogenic catastrophe or natural disaster, but also officials who stole humanitarian aid, the newspaper.gzt.ru reports. Experts express doubts that the emergence of a special article will help to cope with such crimes.

According to Gudkov, there are no articles on the current codes of looting for civilians. “It is necessary to return this norm to the legislation,” says the deputy. “Why is looting is not considered a crime if tens of thousands of people perish in car accident, in floods, fires and terrorist attacks, and lifeless bodies shamefully rob?”

According to Gudkov, if you are guided by the current logic of the Criminal Code, then looting is not considered a crime at all, since there is no victim from robbery. It is natural that if we are talking about the property of a deceased person, then there can be no statement from the victim in the police.

Gennady Gudkov pushed the idea of ​​the return of the article on looting about the History of Humanitarian aid collected by private funds of Great Britain for the victims of the terrorist attack in Beslan: "The British accumulated about 240 thousand pounds and did not receive an intelligible answer - how were they spent?" Gudkov sent a deputy request to the government, and in response received "something unintelligible."

"The theft of humanitarian assistance to the victims is qualified as looting in Decree No. 17 of the Plenum of the Supreme Court of the USSR" On the consideration of cases related to crimes committed in the conditions of spontaneous or other public disaster, "the lawyer Igor Trunov recalls, and adds that not a single case of the embezzlement of" humanitarian "was brought to a logical conclusion.

Now looting is undergoing crimes against property, and theft during, for example, a technogenic disaster is considered only as an aggravating circumstance. “If the policeman removed jewelry from the corpse - yes, it aggravates his guilt,” Trunov explains. “But if the policeman has two children, the court considers it as a softening circumstance and, as a result, the victim’s relatives, as a rule, are left without compensation.”

Marauders, a lawyer believes, must be punished even stricter than participants in a robbery committed by a group of persons. If the State Duma decides to replenish the Criminal Code with an article on looting, then, in his opinion, it is doubly strictly necessary to punish officials and employees of law enforcement agencies who were in an emergency.

Not all Gudkov’s colleagues according to the state share his opinion. So, Pavel Krasheninnikov, who heads the Committee on Legislation, is convinced that the Criminal Code in the current form adequately reflects the encroachment on property. “There are enough articles about theft, robbery or robbery,” Krasheninnikov says.

Many other experts in the field of humanitarian relations also share this point of view, believing that the introduction of a special article will not solve the problem. Marates, according to experts, is an indicator of the moral and economic development of society. Marates are not a disease of individuals, this is a disease of the whole society, experts say.

There are no looting in Islamic or Buddhist countries, such cases are extremely rare in countries with a high cost of living. So it is better for deputies to think about how to increase the cultural and economic level of society, how to prevent wars, terrorist attacks and technological disasters. So in the introduction of an article about looting, there is no need, unless the State Duma is preparing for war or large -scale terrorist attacks.

The most famous cases of looting

After the attack on Dubrovka, the lawyers of the victims presented to the court 50 cases of robbery of property. It was possible to prove only one thing.

On March 30 of this year, the Vladivostok prosecutor’s office charged firefighters who extinguished the cabinets of the local branch of Sberbank and stolen cell phones of employees for 1 thousand euros.

On February 6, 2004, an explosion occurred in the Moscow Metro carriage. The CEC employee died. Products from gold and precious stones disappeared, and the inexpensive watches remained deceased.

Eyewitnesses of tragedies on Kashirk, in the Transvaal, on the Basmann market, say that the first in place of the disaster, as a rule, are not rescuers and doctors, but numerous looters who may even have a heavy wounded people.