The court acquitted two environmental activists in the case of an attack on an excavator operator in Shies, two more received suspended sentences

The Vilegodsky District Court of the Arkhangelsk Region issued a verdict in the case of four environmental activists who were accused of attacking the driver of an excavator who rammed a checkpoint of protesters against the construction of a landfill at the Shies station. about this “7x7” was told by the press service of the court.

The court sentenced Andrei Starkovsky and Dmitry Drobinin to a suspended sentence of one year each; they were found guilty of arbitrariness (Part 2 of Article 330 of the Criminal Code). They must also pay driver Alexey Kozlov 20 thousand rubles in compensation. Valery Dzyuba and Vyacheslav Grigoryants were acquitted.

On the night of March 15, 2019, several workers on an excavator tried to ram a checkpoint of environmental activists who were protesting against the construction of a landfill at Shies station. According to activists , then the workers moved their trailer, inside of which there was a person. An activist who was standing nearby was crushed under the bucket of an excavator.

In addition, worker Alexey Kozlov was injured. Because of this, the police opened a criminal case for causing moderate harm to health (clause “d” of Part 2 of Article 112 of the Criminal Code), then the charge was reclassified as arbitrariness. open a case against the excavator operator who rammed the checkpoint They did not .