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Angara region: Almost a thousand inhabitants went to a rally in support of the ex-mayor
About a thousand inhabitants of the Irkutsk region were published on Monday, September 30, to the rally in support of the ex-mayor of the Olkhonsky district, Sergei Kopylov, Tatyana Turchaninova, one of its participants, told the editorial office of Siberia. Participants in the action protest against the sentence of Kopylov in the criminal case of abuse of authority.
If not for the cold and a weekday, even more participants would have come to the rally, I was sure Turchaninov. "In March, in the village of Elantsev in the Olkhonsky district, at least two thousand people came to the rally against Kopylov’s recognition. We consider the sentence unfair. The term in the colony for the fact that the person suffered for all residents, having achieved the construction of the road to Lake Baikal - is this true? The legislation in the protection of the Baikal is so confusing that the law should not fully comply with the law. And even in this case, you can find, for which it is specifically in the case of damage to the territory on which the contractor took the soil for the construction of the road - all the locals are well aware that there was nothing to damage: before that there was a village and farm and grazing, ”said the rally participant.
Last week, residents of the region arranged single pickets in support of Kopylov near the arbitration court building, where the appeal was considered by a court decision on the recognition of him guilty.
SR in mobile SR on Instagram Wed FacebookIn July, more than 300 residents of the Irkutsk region entered the rally in defense of the convicted mayor of the Olkhonsky district, Sergei Kopylov. He received three years in colony for abuse of authority. However, local residents believe that the ex-official was behind bars due to the "construction of the long-awaited road." According to investigators, during the reconstruction of the highway, he provided the road workers with federal lands, although he did not have such powers, since the territory belonged to the national park. Local residents confirm that people have been living near the Baikal National Park, and because of Russian laws, they "in fact, deprived of the right to housing."
- On June 13, the Echite-Bulagsky District Court sentenced the former mayor of the Olkhonsky district of Sergei Kopylov to three years in a general regime colony. He was found guilty of excess of official powers in the construction of the road in the municipality. The verdict has not yet entered into legal force. The ex-official will appeal him, and if the Russian courts do not hear evidence of his innocence, he intends to apply to the European Court of Human Rights.