One for all: A wheelchair user from Penza held a picket in support of another wheelchair user who is housebound.
Wheelchair user Sergey Egorkin lives in the village ShemysheykaTo get to the regional government building, he had to travel almost 80 km (and another 80 km to return home).
He did it to support his friend, a fellow wheelchair user. Oleg SarnatskyWhich spent He's been picketing several times already. Due to the lack of accessible housing and the indifference of officials, he hasn't been able to leave his home properly for 15 years: there are no ramps, elevators, or lifts. And the housing the authorities offer him consists of practically bare walls.
Answering journalists' questions, Sarnatsky emphasized that he wasn't the disabled person, but the officials whose souls had been amputated. And that hundreds of wheelchair users were in the same situation as him.
The last picket is him spent in October, calling on the governor Oleg Melnichenko, Chairman of the Government Nikolai Simonov and the regional prosecutor Dmitry Gorshkov talk to him and hear his position. But they never entered into a dialogue with him.
Sarnatsky was unable to hold the picket this time, and Sergei Egorkin took up the baton. сообщает According to the publication "MediaPenza," he set up a stand outside the regional government building with posters reading, "Disabled people are people too. Treat us as equals," "Government and society are judged by their attitude toward disabled people," and "Security forces and authorities of Penza, restore the rights of wheelchair-bound Oleg Sarnatsky."
During the picket, a police officer approached Yegorkin and spent about 10 minutes trying to find out who Sarnatsky was.
Photo: MediaPenza
