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How in St. Petersburg they replenish the budget at the expense of coronavirus

28-year-old Diana Maksimikhina is the first and so far the only person in the northern capital, on April 17, by decision of the court, the penalty for violation of new prohibitions adopted by officials. The rest have to pay for things such as, for example, a passage in a wrong place or a coming to a prohibited place. On April 1, the city authorities approved new administrative laws with the wording "in order to avoid the development of coronavirus." At least four Petersburgers to pass punishment for small “misconduct” (almost the same as that of Maximikhina). About 120 more people are now waiting for courts.

Diana Maksimikhina is a volunteer of the St. Petersburg headquarters of volunteers for helping people in a situation of coronavirus. At about 17 o’clock on April 11, she brought food to an elderly woman living in the center of St. Petersburg, and returned home. The Volunteer Way ran through the Alexander Garden and the playground located on its territory. As Diana herself explains, "being an artist in her soul, she decided to make photos in a beautiful place in good weather." Fires (the garden itself was not closed to the passage, and the playground was fenced with red and white ribbons) The girl noticed, but she did not count them with a serious obstacle.

As soon as Maksimikhina graduated from the photo shoot and left the playground, a car drove up to her, from which police officers left. The police asked Diana to stop, present documents and drew up a protocol against her for an offense under Part 2 of Art. 6.3 Administrative Code of the Russian Federation. As the “New” was specified by the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region, Maximikhina “violated the legislation in the field of ensuring the sanitary and epidemiological well-being of the population, expressed in the non-epidemiological measures in the conditions of introduced prohibitions and restrictions in order to counteract the distribution of new coronaviral infections in St. Petersburg Covid-19 ".

Theoretically, for a passage along the playground and a minute stop there, a girl threatened with a penalty of up to 40 thousand rubles in the same place. However, on April 17, the October Court of St. Petersburg terminated the proceedings on the case of Maximikhina on the basis of Art. 2.9 Administrative Code of the Russian Federation. As the “new” lawyer Alexander Porruk, representing the interests of the accused, judge Elena Sergeyeva considered the girl’s offense insignificant, not entailing socially dangerous consequences, so she limited herself to the oral remark of the violator.

But Diana was surprisingly lucky. The St. Petersburg courts examined all previous similar administrative cases, finding the “violators” guilty and fined them.

Recall that from April 1, in St. Petersburg there is an official ban on visiting parks, gardens, squares, children's and sports grounds, temples and cemeteries, hairdressers, restaurants, cafes, basins, fitness centers, any cultural, entertainment, leisure institutions and mass events. The list of closed public places is determined by local authorities in article 20.6.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses “Failure to fulfill the rules of conduct in high readiness mode”. Violation of the rules of visiting threatens violators with penalties - from 15 thousand rubles to 40 thousand rubles. In case of repeated violation - up to 50 thousand rubles.

The first punishment in the northern capital for violation of city prohibitions during the pandemic period went to the Petersburger Alexei Polishchuk, who in the evening of April 8 went with his sons for a walk to the playground. The man was detained and found guilty of an administrative offense under Part 2 of Art. 6.3 Code of Administrative Offenses "Violation of the legislation in the field of ensuring the sanitary and epidemiological well-being of the population." On April 15, the Leninsky District Court fined Polishchuk for 15 thousand rubles.

Then, on April 9, Alina Kadutseva, a volunteer of the city headquarters of volunteers, who, returning from work, went through the fenced Primorsky Park of Victory, The girl partially pleaded guilty, explaining that she simply did not notice the tapes and signs. Nevertheless, on April 15, the Petrograd District Court found her guilty of violation, although he took into account the girl’s property position, assigning a fine below the lower limit - 8 thousand rubles.

On April 15, the exit to the sports ground turned into a fine for two residents of Pushkin - Pavel Kharchev and Daniil Morgunov. Despite the barriers, one of the guys went there to catch up on the horizontal bar. With regard to young people, the police drew up protocols. On April 16, the Pushkin District Court retrained the actions of the offenders of Kharchev and Morgunov on part 1 of Art. 20.6.1 Administrative Code of the Russian Federation “Failure to fulfill the rules of conduct in the regime of increased readiness” and set two thousand rubles of a fine for each.

In total, according to the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region, since the beginning of April, more than 120 protocols have been compiled by law enforcement officers ( now they include: employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Russian Guard, the Ministry of Emergencies, Roszheldor, Roskosmos, Rosatom, employees of the Committee on the Legality of Smolny, etc. ) to Petersburgers who do not observe new laws, that is, not counteracting the spread of the distribution Coronavirus as it is now prescribed. If we assume that the courts will make indictment in all facts, then by minimal standards - this will amount to 1.8 million rubles of fines.