Afrik Sanraise

The head of Rosrybolovstvo Andrei Extreme accused the Greenpeace environmental organization of that she called on the Senegal authorities to detain the Russian fishing trawler Oleg Naydenov. "According to our data, the Senegal military activists of the famous Greenpeace organization, let's say, have been taught, the official said on the air of the Rain television channel.

Director for Russian Greenpeace programs, Ivan Blokov, called the prosecution by the official "very strange." "The Greenpeace campaign, which is currently being conducted, is aimed at the countries of the European Union, which lead illegal or excessive fishing," Blokov added.

Earlier, Greenpeace activists have repeatedly convicted the Russian trawler in illegal fishing and urged the Senegal government to bring the ship’s team to justice. In February 2012, environmentalists held an action on the open sea, writing on board Oleg Naydenov the word “robbery” in English and French.

The extreme also said that on January 7, a meeting of the Russian ambassador to Dakar Valery Nesterushkin with the president of Senegal Maki Sallom was scheduled for January 7. The official expressed the hope that at the meeting "the point in this story will be set and the ship will be released." “In any case,” added the head of the Federal Agency for Rosrybolovy, “the note of the Russian embassy was transferred to the Seeneugal Ministry of Education.”

Meanwhile, ITAR-TASS reports , the Senegal Ecology Minister Haidar Al-Ali said that the authorities of his countries intend to arrest the cargo of trawler and fishing gear used by the team and also recover a fine from the Russians for illegal fishing. The amount of the fine is about 305 thousand euros, the minister noted, however, Oleg Naydenov is not the first to violate the aquatic border of Senegal, so the authorities are going to appoint a double fine - 610 thousand euros.

The trawler "Oleg Naydenov"was detained on Saturday 46 miles from the coast of Guinea-Bisau. According to the head of the Center for Public Relations of Rosrybolovstvo, Alexander Savelyev, four military personnel landed on board the ship from the Senegal warship of Ferlo. Captain Vadim Mantorov was offered to proceed aboard the warship, to which he refused.

According to Savelyev, after this, "an attempt was made using rough physical force on the part of the military to deliver the captain to the Senegal warship."

The senior assistant to the captain announced a common alarm. Meanwhile, the Senegal military was handcuffed by Mantorov himself and placed in a radio room. The crew of the trawler imitated the breakdown of the main engine to stay in the area of ​​fishing. The ship drifted south at a speed of 0.6 knots.

About 4 in the morning of Sunday, Moscow time, trawler was stared in the port of Dakar . After that, the military left side, and the ship took the coastal military police. All crew members - both Russians and Gvinei -Bisau - seized passports.

Captain Mantorov needed medical care. As reported, his kidneys may have been lowered; He also received bruises from handcuffs. Nevertheless, as Prime reports with reference to Rosrybolovstvo, the captain refuses to leave the board. It is also known that the ships of the ship are suspected of a fracture of the hand.

The trailer "Oleg Naydenov" is owned by the Fenix, registered in Murmansk. A ship 120 meters long was built in 1989 in Germany. According to Rosrybolovstvo, there are 82 people on the ship: 62 Russians and 20 citizens of Guinea-Bisau.