Kuzbass: protesting against coal mining was taken to a mental hospital

A resident of the village of Dawn in the Kemerovo region held a protest against the work of the Energogol coal enterprise. The pickets were detained by the police, and then they took it to a psychiatric hospital.

Evgeny Yuzhakov began a solitary protest of the dawn on Sunday. With the poster "We understand everything at dawn, you just feed your children!" He blocked the technological highway with broken glass to stop the "Belase" with the breed. Yuzhakov protested against work on a coal section leading to environmental pollution. The security guards called the police and took the activist to the rural department, where they drew up an administrative protocol. After he was released home.

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The next day, on Monday, Yuzhakov drove up to the power point of Energo -Ill, doused himself with gasoline and locked himself in the car, demanding to close the coal enterprise, which interferes with the inhabitants, the correspondent of Siberia. Realiy was informed of eyewitnesses. Police and employees of the Ministry of Emergencies came to the place of protest: they defeated the glass in the Yuzhakov car and poured several buckets of water into the salon. OMON employees pulled the activist out of the car and forcibly placed in a psychiatric hospital No. 12. According to the neighbors, Yevgeny Yuzhakov has not yet appeared at home.

The press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Kemerovo region of the editors of Siberia. Reals refused to confirm information about the detention of an activist.

A few years ago, Evgeny Yuzhakov moved from Novokuznetsk to his native village, near which the open production of coal was already conducted. Yuzhakov constantly announced the environmental disaster due to coal production in social networks and on different forums. He did not participate in open pickets before.

Residents of the village of Dawn, as well as the villages of Apanas, Kostenkovo, Berezovo, Alekseevka in the Novokuznetsk district of the Kemerovo region, have been trying to stop the expansion of coal sections for more than a year. In some settlements, work is carried out a few hundred meters from residential buildings. Now local residents are collecting signatures to organize a referendum to solve this problem.