In the Krasnodar region, a cat killer will be sentenced to three years in prison. This is an extremely rare case in the Russian justice system.

Gulkevichsky A district court sentenced a man who killed his neighbor's cat in front of his children to three years in a penal colony.

As reported by the United Press Service of the Courts Of the Krasnodar Territory, inhabitant Ivan Malyarov of Gulkevichsky District saw a neighbor's Maine Coon run out of his yard, "he took an air rifle and, going outside, took aim at the animal. The children playing in the street, frightened, asked the man not to shoot the cat, but he, ignoring the children's cries, shotThe animal died on the spot from its injuries."

At the court hearing, Malyarov fully admitted his guilt, explaining that he had been drunk. He was taken into custody in the courtroom.

Article 245 of the Russian Criminal Code ("Cruelty to Animals") provides, in addition to fines, for imprisonment of three to five years. However, in practice, it is rarely enforced.

According to animal rights activists, it comes to court less than 1% of such crimesAnd only one in five suspects receives a court verdict, and most often it's not a real prison sentence, but a suspended sentence or a fine. These statistics are cited by Izvestia.

However, in the last two or three years, judicial practice has changed slightly. Thus, Tyumen district court sentenced a local resident was sentenced to 3 years and 1 month in a maximum security penal colony for killing two dogs in front of young children. And in The Amur Region The director of the Druzhok shelter, who starved its animals, was sentenced to three years in a penal colony.

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