The prosecutor's office demands that the verdict in the case of an attack on an excavator operator in Shies be overturned

The Vilegodsky District Prosecutor's Office filed a motion against the verdict of the Vilegodsky District Court of the Arkhangelsk Region in the case of environmental activists Shies for attacking an excavator operator. About this telegram channel “Pomorye is not a garbage dump!” with reference to the initiative group “Clean Urdoma”.

reports on June 30, 2020, the court sentenced environmental activists Andrei Starkovsky and Denis Drobinin to one year probation each on charges of attacking an excavator operator in an eco-camp. The other defendants in the case, Vyacheslav Grigoryants and Valery Dzyuba, were acquitted.

sentenced The prosecutor's office in its submission demands to cancel the verdict and send the case for a new trial to the court of first instance with a different composition.

The prosecutor indicated in the document that the sentence “is unfair due to its extreme leniency.” Also, the representative of the prosecution called the acquittal of Grigoryants and Dzyuba “illegal” and stated that the victim excavator operator Alexei Kozlov “directly pointed to them as persons who committed arbitrariness,” and also that the guilt of the environmental activists is confirmed by the testimony of witnesses from the prosecution. In the verdict, the court, the telegram channel writes, found that the prosecution did not provide sufficient evidence of the guilt of Grigoryants and Dzyuba.

The prosecutor's office, among other things, demanded that the punishment for Starkovsky and Drobinin be replaced with actual imprisonment, since they allegedly acted by a group of people in a preliminary conspiracy. As evidence of this, the prosecutor pointed to the fact that the environmental activists were wearing identical vests at the time of the act.

• Starkovsky and Drobinin were found guilty of threatening to kill or cause grievous bodily harm (Part 1 of Article 119 of the Criminal Code) and arbitrariness (Part 2 of Article 330 of the Criminal Code).
• According to the investigation, the accused, on the night of March 14-15, 2019, acting as a group of people, deliberately caused moderate harm to the health of excavator operator Alexey Kozlov (clause “d”, part 2 of article 112 of the Criminal Code).
• Almost all the defendants in the case took place at the end of March and beginning of April 2019. Denis Drobinin learned about the criminal case against him later than the others - on April 26. Some defendants were given a preventive measure in the form of a ban on certain actions. Among the restrictions was a ban on approaching Shies station closer than one kilometer. detained - At the Shies station in the Arkhangelsk region, it was planned to build a landfill for importing waste from Moscow into the region. Local residents believe that the operation of the landfill will lead to an environmental disaster. Activists are on duty at the construction site and block the roads to the station, which is why they are regularly detained, forcibly expelled from the construction site, and administrative and criminal cases are brought against the protest participants. Environmental activist Andrei Borovikov is subject to mandatory labor in a criminal case under the “Dada” article about repeated violations at rallies. beat up sentenced - The new acting governor of the Arkhangelsk region in April opposed the construction of a landfill in Shies. In January, the Arkhangelsk Regional Arbitration Court recognized the construction as unauthorized and ordered Technopark LLC (the investor in the construction of the landfill) to demolish part of the erected buildings in the area of ​​the Shies railway station. expressed his opinion decided