The court of second instance rejected the appeal of the “Last Address” activist

The Arkhangelsk Regional Court refused to satisfy the complaint of the Last Address activist Dmitry Kozlov against the decision to fine 15,000 rubles for installing a commemorative plaque. This is reported by the news agency "Region29".

On August 16, the Lomonosovsky District Court of Arkhangelsk fined Dmitry Kozlov, coordinator of the Last Address movement, fifteen thousand rubles. The activist was accused of violating the law on the protection of cultural heritage sites (Article 7.13 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). On August 14, Dmitry Kozlov installed a memorial plaque on the house number 35 on Serafimovich Street, where in 1937 Ignaty Bezsonov, a cable factory mechanic, was arrested for "systematic counter-revolutionary agitation". In 1938 he was shot.

At the meeting of the regional court, lawyer Maxim Olenichev, who represented Kozlov’s interests, insisted that the fact that Kozlov installed the plaque on the house was not confirmed by anything - this is not on the video recording of the moment of fixing the commemorative plaque. Kozlov really pushed the screws into the holes, but did not screw them in, but only fixed them in the cracks between the boards of the house. Then someone screwed two more screws with a screwdriver, but who it is is not clear. In addition, there are no documents confirming the status of the house as a monument in the case file. The house is still inhabited by people who operate it as housing, but there are no questions for them.

Before installing the sign, Kozlov notified the Inspectorate for the Protection of Cultural Heritage Sites and the residents of the house. Nobody was against it.

It turned out to the court that one of the deputies of the regional Assembly reported to the police about the alleged action to install a memorial sign.