The organizer of the action against landfills was fined 200 thousand rubles due to the march on September 9

The Oktyabrsky District Court of Arkhangelsk fined Alexander Peskov, the former coordinator of the local headquarters of Alexei Navalny and the organizer of the action against garbage dumps, 200 thousand rubles. about this He wrote on his page in VKontakte.

Judge Natalya Chebykina found the activist guilty under Part 8 of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (repeated violation of the procedure for holding a public event) due to a protest against pension reform on September 9.

Peskov was detained on November 26 after a medical examination at the military registration and enlistment office. “I was sent “to talk” with the military commissar. Sergei Storchak said bluntly that I had no options - either the army or a criminal, ”the activist said. Then Peskov was taken to the department, and then to the court.

The young man linked his detention with the desire of law enforcement officers to disrupt the United Day of Protest against landfills in the Arkhangelsk region, which environmental activists plan to hold on December 2. Peskov is one of the organizers of the action.