In Moscow, a court sentenced a park defender in Kuntsevo to seven days of arrest

The Kuntsevsky District Court of Moscow has appointed seven days of administrative arrest to the defender of the Ivan Franko Park, Mikhail Shendakov. He himself told OVD-Info about this.

Shendakov was found guilty under the article on petty hooliganism (Article 20.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). The court decided to set off the two days that the detainee spent in the police department.

Shendakov was detained on October 3 during a gathering against the construction of a park on Ivan Franko Street. Another protester, Konstantin Fokin, was pushed from an excavator by a worker, after which Fokin was taken away by an ambulance.

Shendakov was taken to the Kuntsevo police station, where he was charged with petty hooliganism (Article 20.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). The police kept the detainee in the department for two days before the trial.

October 6 0:06 Shendakov was sent to serve his sentence in special detention center No. 1.

• The Moscow authorities are planning to build up a park on Ivan Franko in the Kuntsevo area in order to reconstruct the Northern understudy of Kutuzovsky Prospekt.
• The construction of the route should be completed by December 2021. According to Moscow officials, this 11-kilometer toll highway will become a continuation of the Northern bypass road of the city of Odintsovo and will make it more comfortable to enter the toll understudy of the M-1 Belarus highway, as well as improve transport accessibility of the Dorogomilovo, Fili-Davydkovo, Mozhaisky, Kuntsevo and Filevsky Park.
• Eco-activists and locals oppose the destruction of the park, famous for its 300-year-old oaks. Protesters face police arrests.