In the St. Petersburg metro, it will be forbidden to walk barefoot, kindle fires and launch drones

In the metro of the Northern capital, at the legislative level, it will be forbidden to stick stickers and announcements, launch fireworks and drones, and guess. The bill was adopted in the first reading by the deputies of the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly, a Rosbalt correspondent reports.

The document, prepared in accordance with the new rules for using the subway, was criticized by the deputies during the meeting. In particular, questions were raised by the wording “being on the territory of the metro without shoes or without clothes, in dirty smelly clothes.” For this, they can be fined from 100 to 500 rubles.

The deputies wondered what to consider offensive, and whether this norm would be interpreted subjectively.

“They won’t prosecute for the smell of sweat, there’s no need to dramatize,” objected Konstantin Sukhenko, Smolny’s representative in the Legislative Assembly, who read out the document. The head of the parliament, Alexander Belsky, remarked that people should not be given a tool that they can use at their discretion.

“And from a tramp in the subway what social harm? Deputy Alexander Rassudov expressed sincere bewilderment. – Do not confuse a tramp with a nudist or an exhibitionist. If a person wants to get a fungus, why should we interfere with his personal hygienic aspirations?

The deputies were surprised at the ban on kindling fires and launching drones. Boris Vishnevsky suggested that Konstantin Sukhenko had not been on the subway for a long time and did not know that such excesses usually do not happen there.

Failure to comply with the legal requirements of carrier employees or obstruction of their activities, the authors of the bill proposed to punish with a fine in the amount of 1 to 3 thousand rubles. Sukhenko clarified that we are talking about passengers who do not want to wear masks and provoke conflicts.

“And who are all these people who will monitor the implementation of the rules? Who is this almighty underground overlord, the mountain king, who will bring to justice?” asked Rassudov. Sukhenko could not answer, and the communist reproached him for the fact that the presentation of the bill resembled the interrogation of a partisan.

The deputies also laughed at the proposal to allow passengers to guess “with written permission.” Some suggested that the raw document be withdrawn from consideration.

“I don’t see questions and remarks tragic for the fate of this bill. It doesn’t seem to me that everything is so bad that the law should be withdrawn from consideration,” Sukhenko refused.

33 deputies voted for the bill, 16 voted against. It took a month for the amendments.