Animal owners will be punished for the death of a person after a pet attack

Russia is planning to introduce criminal liability for pet owners for death by negligence due to attacks by their pets. Vladimir Burmatov, First Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Ecology, Natural Resources and Environmental Protection, has prepared such amendments to the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation for submission to the State Duma.

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"It is proposed to supplement Article 109 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation with Part 4 of the following content: "Causing death by negligence due to violation of the requirements for the treatment of pets," says the draft law, which was reviewed by Izvestia.

According to the new rules, the guilty pet owner is proposed to be punished with restriction of liberty for up to three years, or forced labor for the same period with deprivation of the right to hold certain positions or engage in certain activities, or imprisonment for the same period of time.

"Recently, cases of pet attacks on people have become more frequent in Russia, including fatal ones. This is, for example, the tragedy in Stavropol, where a nine-year-old girl was killed by dogs. The police in the region informed me that the person involved in the case turned out to be a woman who had these animals in her house, she was breeding them uncontrollably. There was also a recent attack on a boy in Sochi by two huskies who also had an owner. Then there was an attack in Yekaterinburg by a Rottweiler on a mother with a child, whom the woman was shielding from the savage dog," Burmatov explained.