A planned week-long camp managed to last for a day only.
Administration of Mogilev Metallurgical Plant's camp site has forced about 50 young social democrats campers to leave the camp site without notice and explanations.
As Julija Mickievich the organizer of the camp told, a week-long camp attended by Belarusians as well as a guest from France. However, the managed to operate a day only.
Administration motivated the evictions by claiming that some athletes were coming back, and they forgot to warn the administrator about their arrival. In addition, the rules of the camp site have a point, according to which the administration has the right to evict people not explaining the reasons, said Julija Mickievich. She considers the reasons for eviction voiced by the administration to be a formal reason.
“This looks like an absolute fiction. How could the athletes not inform the camp site director and suddenly arrive? Yes, and they came to evict us with the police at once, began to check passports, transcribed data, invited a French guy for a talk. Police wondered who he was and why he came [to Belarus — NN], copied data, checked the fact of border crossing.
“We were immediately threatened, if we were not leaving, they would call riot police to evict us.”
The camp organizers decided not to risk the participants (there were persons who arrived with young children) and intend to seek another place to hold the camp.
“We wrote a message in the camp site's complaints book, and we will also go to the law with a claim to compensate moral damages for spoiled holidays. We promised the Administration an international scandal», said Julija Mickievich. She also pointed out that holidays at the camp site were prepaid a week ahead, though, the money were given back them for remaining days.
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