In Sochi, the authorities after a rally of citizens dismantled fences in the seaport

In the seaport of Sochi, the authorities dismantled the fences that interfered with amateur fishing after the locals reached a rally of protest. On Sunday night, April 8, the designs were completely removed, the Caucasian Knot reports.

On January 8, about 200 people went to the action demanding to remove fences in the seaport. On January 12, the authorities promised to dismantle the fences, but by March 8 they were only partially removed.

The initiative group of fishermen raised the question after a conflict occurred in the seaport of Sochi in November 2017. The fishermen said that the guards for the yacht parking took away fishing rods from them and broke them.

As a member of the initiative group Sergey Bernosovsky told the Caucasian Knot, the fishermen after the conflict decided to “restore the rights of all Sochi and guests of the resort to public places.” They wrote complaints to all authorities - from the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation to the General Prosecutor's Office.

At the end of March, the fishermen Evgeny Plauev and Yuri Fedorin received a notification from the police that in the actions of the guard there are signs of a criminal offense under Article 330 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("arbitrariness"), but the case was not instituted, since there was no statement about the damage caused.

Members of the initiative group welcomed the decision of the authorities to demolish the fencing. “I believe, in view of the fact that the law on the side of the people, and not the oligarchs who captured the seaport, in Sochi, it was decided to remove the remaining fences by the southern mall,” Sergei Bernosovsky stated with satisfaction. “This general trouble rallyed us all, and we were able to show that people are power and power in the city,” fisherman Evgeny Plauev told reporters.

The day before, about 50 people gathered in the seaport. Moreover, some of them do not share the optimism of the initiators of the protest and believe that instead of demolished fences in the port, other obstacles may now appear. After all, if, for example, the berths of larger shipowners will be moored on the pier, fishermen will be completely blocked.