On Tuesday morning, Halina Ihnatovich climbed a building crane at a construction site in the village of Lyabyazhy near Minsk in protest against disproportionately compensating for the demolition of her house.
As Tapas, a Belarusian real estate development company, is building Olympic Park complex in Lyabyazhy, the Ihnatovichs’ house (116 square metres) was to be levelled. But several families living in the house are not satisfied with the compensation offered by the developer.
The woman demanded to let journalists pass to the scene, but the police ignored her and pushed reporters from the construction site.
At 10:45 Halina Ihnatovich’s son Alyaksei told media that his father and Alyaksandr Barsukov, Head of the Minsk police, were meeting with Andrey Shorats, Chairman of Minsk executive committee. The Ihnatovichs wanted to obtain any safeguards against forced evictions or the demolition of the house. They are set to appeal against the decision on eviction to the city court and, if it is necessary, to the Supreme Court of Belarus.
About 11 am, five rescue officers climbed the crane and talked the woman into going down. She was diagnosed with hypothermia and taken to hospital.
According to Svyatlana, Halina Ihnatovich’s daughter-in-law, the city prosecutor deferred the pulling-down to February, 6. It is still unknown if the large family will be evicted or there will be a sort of compromise.
“This house is the only property that I got from the parents. I did not manage to build other houses for my children to build. For what fault are the authorities depriving us of even our legal right to appeal against the decision?” Halina Ihnatovich says in a letter she wrote before climbing the crane.
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As the Ihnatovich family told Belsat earlier, in accordance with the law, they have the right to choose which compensation would be better to them, but the developer imposed its own scheme on them.
“[The developer offers] three two-room flats which are not new; 15 square meters per person. We tried to go into litigation with them, but the court failed to give an ear to us, it sided with Tapas,” Alyaksei Ihnatovich says.
Belsat.eu
