"Siberia. Realities": An opponent of coal mining in Kuzbass was sent to a psychiatric hospital

Yevgeny Yuzhakov, a resident of the village of Raduzhny in the Kemerovo region, was forcibly admitted to a psychiatric hospital after an action against coal mining - a man poured gasoline on the entrance of the Energougol enterprise. About this writes “Siberia. Realities".

Yuzhakov believes that work in a quarry is harmful to the environment. On Sunday, August 19, he blocked the track with broken glass and placed a poster near his car: “We understand everything in Dawn, you just feed your children!”. So the man wanted to stop the technique with coal. The picketer was detained and taken to the police station. There, a protocol was drawn up against him and he was released home.

The next day, Yevgeny Yuzhakov, the newspaper writes, arrived at the checkpoint of Energougol, doused himself with gasoline and locked himself in the car with a demand to close the enterprise. Emergency services and the police arrived at the scene. They smashed the windows in the car and poured several buckets of water into it. The riot police pulled the man out of the car. Then Yuzhakov was forcibly placed in a psychiatric hospital No. 12.

For more than a year, residents of the Novokuznetsk district of the Kemerovo region have been trying to prevent the expansion of the coal mining area - sometimes work is carried out several hundred meters from residential buildings.