The Babushkinsky District Court of Moscow ruled that activist Olga Kuzmina, who climbed a poplar tree with a crossbow two years ago, was sent for compulsory treatment to stop construction near the park. This was reported by the press service of the capital's courts.
A Muscovite was accused of hooliganism with the use of weapons (Part 2 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code), but the court decided to choose «coercive measures against the insane» for her, follows from the case card. The part of the article that the activist was charged with provides for a sentence of up to seven years in prison. alt=»1″ />They hear another drum. The misadventures of activists who faced state psychiatry (and criminal prosecution)
On August 9, 2021, Kuzmina climbed a poplar tree in Babushkinsky Park with the help of a truck crane and tied herself to the branches with belts as a sign of disagreement with the construction that began near the park. The Muscovite asked to recognize the construction as illegal, since the town-planning plan threatened to destroy the square and violated the law on environmental protection.
After the action, the activist was placed under house arrest, during which the court decided to place her in a psychiatric hospital for 30 days. “The investigation ordered an outpatient psychiatric examination, as a result [of which] there was a conclusion of doctors that they could not conduct an examination on an outpatient basis and recommended placing her in a hospital,” said lawyer Katerina Tertukhina.
Later, the Department of nature management and environmental protection of the capital drew up a report on Kuzmina for damaging five branches of a poplar (clause 1 of article 4.18 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of Moscow). As a result, she was fined three and a half thousand rubles.
Summer with a crossbow. The court placed under house arrest an activist who refused to climb down from a tree until construction was stopped in the north of Moscow