Residents of Stavropol went to the protest against the sorry of the pigs because of the African plague

About 200 local residents on the outskirts of the village of Rostovansky, Kursk district of the Stavropol Territory, last Friday protested against the masses of pigs, a source in law enforcement agencies said on Saturday .

“Within 200 local residents, the traffic on the Kurskaya-Novopavlovsk road was blocked, protesting against the decision of the local administration on the mass of the livestock of pigs in private farmstocks in connection with the conduct of quarantine-sanitary measures to combat African plague,” the agency’s interlocutor said.

He noted that the traffic was organized along a traveling route. According to the interlocutor of the agency, after a meeting with the head of the district administration, participants in the action dispersed. In the protection of public order, 30 police officers were involved.

The case of pigs on one of the three pig farms of the Rostovanovsky collective farm in the Stavropol Territory began on January 8. In total, the Rostovanovsky collective farm of the Rostovanovsky collective farm at that time contained about 6.5 thousand pigs of pigs, on farm N 2, where the plague was detected, 2 thousand 600 heads of pigs.

Earlier, the African swine virus was revealed in a number of areas of the Stavropol Territory - in the village of Gorky Balka of the Sovetsky District, the village of Grushovsky, the Aleksandrovsky district, the village of Staropavlovsky, Kirovsky district and the village of Yutsa Potorny district.

For violation of veterinary rules, resulting in the spread of the African Pigs virus of the pigs in the Stavropol in October 2008, four collective farm workers in the village of Gorky Balka will appear before the court.

The Investigative Department of the SCP of the Russian Federation in the Stavropol Territory reported that the criminal case, which was investigated by the Soviet Interdistrict Investigative Department of the Office, was sent to the court with the approved indictment for consideration on the merits.

The charge under Part 1 of Article 249 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Violation of the Veterinary Rules") was brought by four employees of the agricultural production cooperative "Lenin Collective farm": the head of the collective farm, the chief zootechnics and the chief veterinarian.