"Go away, fascist!" Special forces deployed to resettle unauthorized housing in Irkutsk
Armed special forces broke into apartments in a 10-story illegal building on Piskunov Street in Irkutsk to resettle residents. Two pensioners called the soldiers fascists, and the building contains 137 apartments.
Footage of special forces soldiers wearing masks and armed with weapons breaking down apartment doors in a building on Piskunov Street, publishes local publication "IrCity".
The house was declared illegal six years after it was completed.
The 10-story building was commissioned back in 2013, but it was only six years later that authorities concluded it was illegally constructed. After numerous court cases, the decision was made to evict the residents and demolish the building at their own expense.
For some owners, this is their only home. Two pensioners living in one of the apartments called the special forces officers fascists.
Resettlement of unauthorized buildings: Special forces in apartments
Judging by the footage, armed men are inspecting the broken-in apartments using a well-practiced tactic, talking to each other: "The left [room] is clean, the right one is clean."
Psychologists are already working with the shocked residents.
Utility workers cut off power to the house and shut off the water.
The day before, utility workers cut off the power to the building and shut off the cold water supply. However, people have returned They generated electricity themselves, climbing into a transformer substation, and began taking water from the heating system. Today, authorities promise to turn off the radiators.
The building has 137 apartments, in which 155 people are registered.
The official who helped the developer commission the building was sentenced to eight and a half years in prison. And the businessman who owned the construction company fled.
Resettlement of unauthorized buildings and confiscation of property
This isn't the first time the state approves property registrations and then confiscates the property. In the Krasnodar region, residents of the village of Yuzhny require more than three billion rubles for the land they had already purchased, which in fact turned out to have been stolen from the state 20 years ago by completely different people.