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On Tuesday, the Tauragė District Prosecutor’s Office launched a pre-trial investigation pursuant to article 271, paragraph 1, of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Lithuania in relation to a high marsh that may have been destroyed by off-road vehicles.
The Viešvilė State Natural Park Prosecutor’s Office requested the Prosecutor’s Office to initiate a pre-trial investigation into the destruction of the Laukesa swamp included in the Natura 2000 network of European Union protected areas.
This pre-trial investigation was commissioned by investigators from the Tauragė County Police Chief Commissariat, which are headed by the Tauragė District Prosecutor’s Office of the Klaipėda Regional Prosecutor’s Office.
Lrytas.lt wrote that management employees who came to inspect the high swamp were shocked. “It is unlikely that the Tauragė district has experienced such barbarity since the end of World War II,” they said.
It turned out that illegal SUV competitions could be organized more than once in a remote location. Its organizers not only did not hide, but also uploaded videos to the Internet of how decades of forest cover and trees were being felled.
Only when lrytas.lt began to publicize the situation, the participants and organizers of the competition rushed to hide the traces of their crime: they deleted videos and photos from the Internet.
Environmentalists say the damage to nature could amount to hundreds of thousands of euros.
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