Civil, administrative and arbitration lawyer Vasily Vorobyov noted in a conversation with RT that usually the possibility of an autopsy involves emergency situations directly related to human life and health.
“Unfortunately, animals do not fall under this. That is, if we hear the howl of an animal and understand that it somehow doesn’t feel well and is alone locked in the apartment, unfortunately, this is not a sufficient reason to open the premises,” the expert explained.
He added that entry of law enforcement officers into an apartment is possible to save the lives of citizens and their property, ensure the safety of citizens or public safety during riots and emergencies, to detain suspects and accused, to stop a crime and to restore the circumstances of an accident.
“But there is no precedent that we have the right to open a premises because of animals, unfortunately,” said RT’s interlocutor.
In turn, Ivan Solovyov, Doctor of Law, Professor, Honored Lawyer of Russia, believes that
when there is an animal in the home that may die, in agreement with the prosecutor’s office and internal affairs authorities, a decision can be made to open it in order to save the animal.
“A similar situation happened with a cat who was locked in a car. And there a legal mechanism was found. I am sure that in this case, too, the long absence of the owner is the basis for opening the home. It’s not a fact that the owner left; maybe he, too, is in the apartment in an unconscious state,” the specialist concluded.
Earlier, the editor-in-chief of RT and MIA Rossiya Segodnya, Margarita Simonyan, called on legislators to change the law banning the opening of other people's property without the owners.
The proposal came amid reports of a dog howling for several days - the animal was locked in an apartment in Tomilino, near Moscow.
Local residents told RT that the dog’s owner does not really feed it, periodically goes on sprees, and leaves home.