The inhabitants of Volokolamsk went to the second for a day a rally against the landfill "Yadrovo"

In the Volokolamsk district, the suburbs of about 500 local residents gathered at the gates of the Yadrovo waste recycling landfill, poisoning air with poisonous emissions, to the agreed rally for its closure, Interfax reports . This is the second action of the dump opponents in a day.

The action lasted 15 hours Moscow time. There is an unpleasant odor near the landfill; Many demonstrators covered their face with scarves and respirators.

After the rally, the police detained the activists of the “Left Front” Vladislav Kharitonov, Ilya Getman, Rodion Kabanadze, Vadim Vasiev and Alexander Vasiliev, the OVD-info reports with reference to the coordinator of the movement of Sergei Udaltsov. The police stopped the car at which activists left the action, and stated that the driver was intoxicated. Now the detainees are being taken for a medical examination in Krasnogorsk.

On Saturday morning, about 500 opponents of the landfills reached the first protest, which took place at the monument to the heroes on the Volokolamsk highway. The head of the administration of the Governor of the Moscow Region Mikhail Kuznetsov came to the protesters. The official apologized for the situation with the landfill and promised "to" do everything possible and impossible to make this smell in your life anymore. "

Also at the first rally was a former presidential candidate, TV presenter Ksenia Sobchak. She called for uniting opponents of landfills in different cities near Moscow.

The day before, it became known that against the mayor of Volokolamsk, Peter Lazarev, who advocates the closure of the Yadrovo landfill, the case was opened under part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code (fraud organized by a group or in a particularly large amount; up to 10 years of the colony). It was opened on April 11th. On Friday, searches were held in the house of the mayor and in the city administration. Lazarev himself was not detained.

The official connected his persecution with the "threats that came from higher authorities in connection with the garbage training ground of the TBU" Yarovo ".

On April 5, searches were already taking place in the Volokolamsk administration. Then two employees of the Department of Economic Security and Anti -Corruption of the Moscow Region Ministry of Internal Affairs came to the city hall and demanded documents regarding the equipment of water intake units in 2017.

On Thursday, the security forces conducted searches in the editorial office of the Volokolamsk Week newspaper, as well as the organizer of the protests by Arere Lyubimov, arrested for 15 days according to the fabricated protocol on disobedience to the police. Computers and documents were seized from the editorial office of the publication.

Protests against the Yadrovo landfill have been going on in Volokolamsk since the beginning of March.