The police detained 11 people who went to the action in defense of the Trinity Forest, which is planned to be cut down to build a «giant school». This is reported by with reference to eyewitnesses.
As noted in the human rights project, Denis Strelkov, Yevgeny Molchanov, Yevgeny Zhuralev, Sergey Trokhov and Andrey Pribyl are among the detainees. The names of the other detainees have not been released. According to OVD-Info, now the activists are in a paddy wagon, they plan to draw up protocols on disobedience to policemen (Article 19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).
The Troitsky Les-KanalNovosti telegram channel writes about 14 detainees. Readovka published a video showing police officers beating a man who fell on the snow, a woman nearby shouting: «The police are beating people.» «mz-publish-context-cite__image» alt=»1″ />«You can't treat us like slaves». A report from the Trinity Forest, which was defended by hundreds of local residents
On the video published by the telegram channel “Opersvodka. Trinity Forest”, you can count about a hundred people who went to the action today. Those gathered chant «Open», standing at the gate in the fence, which fenced the forest. Readovka reports that 500 people came to the gathering.
Deforestation for the construction of a school began on January 10 near Troitsk. The Moscow City Hall in press releases called it a «giant school» because of more than 2,000 planned places for students. On January 31, clashes also took place between residents and security guards.
They plan to cut down 4.9 hectares of the 75 hectares of the forest park for construction, Kommersant noted. The head of the Moscow department for the development of new territories, Vladimir Zhidkin, in response to the objections of residents about the illegality of logging, argued that it «would not harm the ecosystem of the [Troitsky] urban district.»