A homemade indicator at a preferred visitor area in northeast Norway has actually prompted individuals to not pee towards Russia.
Composed in English, the brand-new indicator orders individuals “no peeing in the direction of Russia” or they will certainly encounter a substantial penalty.
The notification was put on the financial institutions of the Jakobselva River that divides Norway and also Russia, beside a main indicator educating that the location is under video clip security by Norwegian boundary guards.
Norwegian boundary commissioner Jens-Arne Høilund has actually validated the records that an indicator had actually shown up near the town of Grense Jakobselv.
” The indicator was possibly placed there by well-meaning individuals, to caution individuals going through versus offending behavior,” Høilund stated in a declaration to AFP.
Under Norwegian legislation, it is prohibited to dedicate “offending behavior at the boundary, routed at the adjoining state or its authorities,” with a prospective penalty of 3,000 kroner (around EUR290).
” Peing in nature is not always offending yet it relies on the perspective,” Høilund included. “Below it drops under the legislation restricting offending behavior at the boundary.”
The commissioner included that Russian authorities had actually never ever grumbled concerning anything that the indicator cautions versus.
Norwegian media have actually formerly reported events where people have actually been fined or visited boundary guards for unlawfully going across the 198-kilometre boundary or tossing rocks throughout the Jakobselva river in the direction of Russia.
” It might appear rough, yet we impose the boundary policies consistently,” stated Høilund.
