Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Nikolai Patrushev said that in some Western countries you can now marry the animal. We checked whether this is really so.

September 21, 2021, a large interview With Nikolai Patrushev - Secretary of the Security Council and the former director of the FSB. The official, in particular, said: “Under the hypocritical slogans of the struggle for equality in the West, an undisguised discrimination of citizens who adhere to traditional values is organized. What is worth only a systematic undermining of normal gender relations, when the father and mother are renamed the number one and two to parents, they want to give the children the right to choose their gender on their own, and in some places the case comes to legalizing marriages with animals. ”

We were not able to find at least one message in authoritative sources that marriages between people and animals were legalized in Europe and North America. On the contrary, in recent years, a number of countries have adopted laws aimed at combating zoophiles, although there were no corresponding prohibitions in these countries before. New norms approved, in particular, Canada, Denmark And Sweden. In Germany, a ban on sexual relations with animals was introduced in 2013, later two activists disputed it, but the authorities Rejected Their requirement to cancel the law. In 2010, one German Organized A wedding with her beloved dying cat, but she was not official - the actress hired by a man led the ceremony.

Messages about marriages between people and animals several times came from countries that cannot be called Western. In 2003, the leaders of a small tribe in India Forced The girl marry the dog to "take off the curse." In 2006, one drunken Sudanese was Noticed During the copulation with a goat, local elders ordered a man to marry an animal as a punishment. In 2017, Indonesian media told A similar story about a young man and a cow on Bali Island. The 18-year-old young man had to participate in a ritual wedding, after which the cow was drowned in the ocean. In all these cases, marriages were not registered by the authorities of India, Sudan and Indonesia, respectively.

But a message about the legalization of marriages between people and animals appeared In 2018, on the site of the satirical news "Panorama". The comic note described about the Swede Eric Lindstraem and the horse of Porgy, who, after two years of litigation, achieved permission to marriage. Moreover, subsequently more than 50 Swedes allegedly applied to state bodies with applications for registering relations with animals. Of course, not a single authoritative media talked about this story, and its characters were invented by the authors of Panorama. In the West in 2019, a similar “news” about Norway, whose primary source also became popular It turned out Satiric news site.

Although we cannot say for sure that Patrushev took information about unusual marriages from the message of the satirical site, Russian statesmen were already in such situations. For example, in the fall of 2020, the State Duma deputy Alexey Zhuravlev on the air of the Rossiya-1 channel told About the brothels legalized in Denmark. The primary source of this "news" It turned out The publication of 2017 on the French analogue "Panorama" - the website SecretNews. In any case, as found out Our colleagues-factory, in an interview for “arguments and facts”, Patrushev made several more statements that do not correspond to reality.