A criminal case has been opened in Izhevsk for a tree cut down during preparation for a meeting with Navalny.

In Izhevsk, law enforcement agencies opened a criminal case about a man cut down in preparation for a meeting with the Navalny tree. The case was initiated under Article 260 of the Criminal Code (illegal felling of trees). This is reported by "Mediazona" with reference to the coordinator of the local headquarters of Navalny Sergei Urban.

According to Urban, he was called in for questioning as part of this case as a witness. During interrogation, the police persuaded Urban to confess that it was he who had cut down the tree on November 10.

The activist claims that he only brought volunteers from Navalny's headquarters to the venue of the event, who were supposed to clean up the territory. By this time, the tree had already been cut down.

According to Urban, in addition to him, several volunteers and employees of the headquarters, as well as the chairman of the HOA, on whose territory the meeting with Navalny took place, were summoned for interrogation.

Mikhail Nazarov, a member of the HOA, who provided the territory to Navalny's supporters, was also interrogated. Nazarov told Mediazone that members of the HOA removed two “emergency” trees before the event.

On November 14, Sergei Urban was fined 28 thousand rubles for holding an unapproved public event (part 2 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

During a meeting with Navalny, Urban made a slip of the tongue from the stage and uttered the word "rally", but corrected himself. Nevertheless, the police drew up a protocol under Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses. in Izhevsk were detained On that day , several people . Sergei Urban's defense insisted that the action did not require any notification or approval, since it took place in the form of a meeting on the territory of a private house.