UFA, April 18 Orenburg Mayor Sergei Salmin said that after a pack of dogs attacked a child, people can lynch animals, he recalled that this is a criminal offense .
On Sunday in Orenburg, dogs killed an eight-year-old boy when he was walking in the area of u200bu200bhis house near the garages. The source said that the child was alone — there were no eyewitnesses to the tragedy. The Investigative Committee opened two criminal cases under the article on negligence, which negligently caused the death of a person, and under the article on services that do not meet safety requirements. The prosecutor's office will evaluate the actions of the enterprise for catching animals, the mayor's office promised to support the family.
“The picture that we are seeing not only in connection with the tragic events in Orenburg, but also throughout the country, is simply blatant. People begin to resent to such an extent that various resonant situations can continue to occur, including lynching of animals. «They will go out and shoot dogs. This cannot be allowed — this is a criminal liability. And such cases when people received a real term for this have already been registered in the country,» the press service of the city administration quoted Salmin as saying.
The Orenburg mayor noted that therefore dogs need to be caught, taken from the street, and placed in shelters. “As Sergei Ivanov, Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation for Environmental Protection, Ecology and Transport, noted yesterday, today, in the digital age, you can post photos of animals on the websites of these shelters and offer to take them home. If the dog is aggressive and has not found its owner, then you need to put her to sleep in a humane way,» Salmin said.
The mayor cited the cost of keeping animals. According to him, 22 days of keeping one animal in a shelter costs 13 thousand rubles, which is 590 rubles per day. «At the same time, the cost of feeding a child in schools in the Orenburg region is several times less — 182 rubles. In addition, the sterilization and temporary keeping procedure itself does not change anything in the behavior of animals. Dogs return to their former habitat and continue to huddle in packs and threaten the safety of citizens,» he added.
«We will come up with a legislative initiative, which we have already actually prepared. Tomorrow it will be sent to the governor of the Orenburg region Denis Pasler and to the Legislative Assembly of the region,» Sergey Salmin concluded.