
The Novokhopersky District Court of the Voronezh Region sentenced the third participant in the June anti-Kilia unrest of Arthur Petrosyan to two years conditionally with the same test term, the press service of the regional prosecutor's office reports. In addition, it is entrusted with an additional obligation not to change without notifying a permanent place of residence during the period of the probationary period.
"As established by the court, on June 22, 2013, during the period of an unauthorized rally of citizens who protested against nickel developments near the village of Sorokinsky, Novokhopersky district of the Voronezh region, Petrosyan applied violence in relation to his official duties," the report said. Petrosyan was found guilty under Part 1 of Article 318 and the Criminal Code (the application of violence to a representative of the authorities).
On October 15, the same court sentenced another participant in the unrest of the 36-year-old resident of the Uryupinsk Volgograd region Dmitry Chernyaev to one and a half years conditionally with the same test term. The court agreed with the arguments of the investigation, which proved that during the unrest, Chernyaev attacked the head of the OP "Novokhopersky" Alexander Kulikov, as well as the district police officer.
In mid -September, Roman Khvostov received a year conditionally . He was also found guilty of attacking Kulikov. In total, the charges were brought by a three participant in the rally.
On June 22, after the agreed rally against non -ferrous metals,unrest occurred . A group of several hundred people headed for the camp of geologists, broke the fence and set fire to exploration equipment.
The police, stated, did not use strength. Meanwhile, the three police officers were taken to the Novokhoperskaya Rybolskie with small injuries, and two were released after assisting without hospitalization.
The next day, the TFR press service said that 25 participants in the unrest were detained . A criminal case was opened under the 318th article.
The Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company conducted exploration on lands rented with the aim of the production of agricultural products. At the same time, the fence built by the company blocked several foreign sections. The company did not comply with the police of the Novokhopersky district on eliminating land use violations.
For more than a year, local residents of the Voronezh and neighboring regions have been struggling in all peaceful and legal methods against the development of copper-cobalt-nickel deposits in the Voronezh region. Back in December 2012, at open hearings in the Public Chamber, the results of a study conducted by the Institute of Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences were presented, according to which 98 percent of the inhabitants of the Novokhopersky district considered this project harmful. At the same time, a third is ready to resist the work even outside the legal field.