"The time of the Aniskins and Zheglovs is over." Security forces prevented residents of the Vsevolozhsky district from a picnic at the quarry where the Dubrovka landfill is planned to be built.
"On a sunny Sunday, we were prevented from having a picnic at the quarry. We also wanted to record a video clip in defense of our environment, but our path to the reservoir was blocked by traffic police, some people in balaclavas, the National Guard, and even a paddy wagon was pulled up to intimidate us," residents told NeMoskva. Vsevolozhsky District of the Leningrad Region.
Previously "NeMoscow" wrote in detail How residents of the Vsevolozhsky district are protecting the quarry from the construction of the Dubrovka waste processing plant (WPP). They achieved making They added a flooded quarry to the register of water bodies and planned to spend the weekend there. Security forces prevented them from entering.
"The plan was to have a picnic, fish, sing songs, and film a video in defense of the water body. But the fishermen, women, and children were blocked by brave men wearing 'OMON' signs on their clothes, traffic police officers, police, and a paddy wagon. First, they cited an unauthorized rally, then a drowned man being sought by the Investigative Committee. I wonder if they have nothing better to spend taxpayer money on? For eight hours, law enforcement officers guarded the entrance to a legally public water body."- сообщили activists in their VKontakte group.
"It's shameful... what have the security forces become? Is the time of the Zheglovs and Aniskins over? A crowd of burly men spends all day preventing something that doesn't exist. So who is the enemy here, and who do these people serve? We don't need any external enemy if this is happening at home.", a local resident expressed her opinion in the comments. Larisa Mukhina.
She explained that despite the reservoir's inclusion in the register of water bodies (and the consequent establishment of protected coastal zones), the Waste Management Committee found no grounds for excluding the Dubrovka waste disposal plant from the Leningrad Region's territorial solid waste disposal plan. The residents plan to continue their fight to preserve the area's ecology.