Greenpeace threatens the authorities of the Russian Federation with lawsuits, prophesies the emergency on the "Prirazlomnoy" and recalls Rainbow Warrior

Greenpeace activists, most of the comrades of which were arrested from the Arctic Sunrise icebreaker for two months for attacking the Prirazlomnaya oil platform, do not lose hope of convincing Russian law enforcement officers and assuring the world community that environmentalists are not guilty of anything. Ecorganization continues to insist that its employees performed a peaceful protest and were not at all going to feast, in any way to harm Gazprom’s property and violate international law.

“There can be no talk of piracy here because, according to the formal signs of this crime, neither in international law nor in its understanding by Russian criminal law in the activities of Greenpeace activists,” Anton Benislavsky, lawyer of the Russian branch of Greenpeace, told Interfax .

It is worth noting that at least some colleagues of a lawyer with this interpretation of events do not quite agree . Thus, the lawyer Konstantin Baranovsky, who defended the invaders of the Arctic Sea vessel in 2009, said that formally the actions of ecologists fall under the definition of Art. 227 about "an attack on a sea or river vessel in order to seize other people's property." The lawyer noted that it is not for nothing that investigators refer to international conventions, according to which, unlike Russian legal norms, drilling towers are equated with marine facilities. The fact of the crime in the actions of the environmentalists was also agreed by the specialist in international law "Legal Service of the Capital" Dmitry Yastrebov. However, he noticed that investigators will have to prove the criminal intent of activists.

In Greenpeace, they insist that there was no such intent. “This act cannot be qualified as piracy due to the fact that this composition of the crime involves the use of violence and their use of weapons during the assault. However, there was none of this in this case,” said the legal adviser of Daniel Simons, it is quoted by ITAR -TASS. “The name of our organization has the word Peace, which means“ world. ”All our shares are peaceful,” the lawyer brought the argument.

“It is strange to hear the accusations of piracy against persons who were conducted from the first moment of their action video recording and video broadcasting. The first time I see“ pirates ”who clearly collect evidence of their activities. And I note that the armed border ship, which opened fire in the presence of the unarmed ship Greenpeace,” said Greenpeace lawyer Benislavsky.

Greenpeace: Activists could not harm the platform

Finally, in eco-organization, they insist that their activists not only did not plan to capture the platform as pirates and hold it (by the way, the Greenpeace statement is somewhat contradicting the Greenpeace statement somewhat about their capsule , which the border guards allegedly accepted for the bomb, which caused the threat of initiating terrorism case: there are sleeping bags, electricity, radio and Internet and eating reserves that gives the food, which gives “ The opportunity to live in a capsule during a peaceful action, fixed on the outside of the platform "), but even harm the designs.

"The statement that several ropes and a banner may pose a threat to the ice -resistant platform are absurd, or Gazprom must very seriously think about the security of the platform," said the organization’s activist Dmitry Artamonov.

The statement of the head of the Russian Greenpeace programs Vladimir Chuprov may seem somewhat contradictory in this regard. Argumenting the motives of activists, he said that the risk of an emergency is a great risk of emergency, which could threaten an environmental disaster. The platform, according to him, is “assembled from outdated components,” and therefore, during its operation, “there is a great risk of rosple oil”. According to him, in the event of an accident, oil can be a area approximately equal to the "three areas of Greece."

In any case, activists could not harm the structures, emphasize on Greenpeace. “We must understand what happened there: five motor boats approached the platform and wanted to hang a banner,” said the activist Artamonov.

Eco -activists threaten the Russian authorities with lawsuits

But Russian border guards and law enforcement officers, say on Greenpeace, in every possible way violated the rights of activists. “Greenpeace International lawyers, lawyers of other offices and activists and employees were illegally captured,” said Benislavsky’s lawyer. “We will do our best to every procedural violation, every violation of substantive law, every violation of international law, which, according to the Russian Federation, are binding on the territory of the Russian Federation, are appealed.”

“Efforts will be made so that the necessary legal measures are taken in relation to each official who committed these violations, both within the country and at the international level,” the lawyer assured.

Russian Greenpeace Director Ivan Blokov compared the detention of activists on the Arctic Sunrise vessel with an incident that occurred with the Rainbow Warrior trawler in 1985. "What happened yesterday, if describing the situation of the language of diplomats means the most aggressive unfriendly act from the Russian Federation in relation to Greenpeace after the explosion of the Rainbow Warrior ship. We do not know a single case for the same extent that the state acted as a peaceful protest that has nothing to do with any criminal Violations, ”Blokov said.

The Rainbow Warrior ship, which belonged to the Ministry of Agriculture, fishing and food of Great Britain and redeemed Greenpeace in 1978, participated in a number of shares against hunting whales and sea cats and against nuclear weapons testing. It was sunk by an explosion in the New Zealand Bay in July 1985. During the investigation, it was found that the organizers and performers of the sabotage became the special services of France. The scandal led to the resignation of the Minister of Defense Charles Ernya.

"Hinting that Denis can be released"

At the moment, out of 30 detainees from the Arctic Sunrise, the preventive measure was chosen 22, the remaining eight activists extended the arrest. The Lenin court of Murmansk will consider their cases on September 29. According to Interfax in court, the reasons for the transfer of court hearings to eight activists were problems with the search for translators and the need to collect additional characterizing information.

Meanwhile, in Russia, a scandal is flared up around the arrest for two months of a photographer’s photographer on the “Prirazlomnaya” Denis Sinyakov, also known for working with the “War”, Pussy Riot, business trips to “hot spots” and cooperation with world news agencies. The day before, Russian journalists protested in Moscow as a sign of solidarity in Moscow. Today, a number of domestic Internet publications, in protest, refused to post illustrations to his materials.

At the same time, some sources in power hint that soon the measure of restraint for the Russian can soften. “The lawyers, unfortunately, are not told us yet. We will contact them at noon today. As for everyone else, mixed signals from power structures come,” Galina Timchenko, editor -in -chief of the Internet publication Lenta.Ru, which collaborates with Sinyakov, told Kommersant FM .

"I mean that they hint to me that Denis can be released, and most likely it will be after the journalists sign this letter," Timchenko said. We are talking about letters-confusion from various publications in support of the arrested photographer. According to the chief editor of Lente.ru, thus, the Kommersant and Vedomosti newspapers have already spoke out in defense of Sinyakov.

Note that the admission of the possibility of changing the preventive measure was previously made by the official representative of the TFR Vladimir Markin, and he spoke about all the arrested. True, Markin did not specify when to expect such actions.