An American woman was detained and fined by a Russian court on Wednesday for walking a calf in Moscow’s Red Square that she said she had bought to save it from massacre, Russian state media reported.
Alicia Day, 34, was fined 20,000 rubles, equivalent to $285, for obstructing pedestrians at an unauthorized protest and sentenced to 13 days of “administrative arrest” on a separate charge of disobeying police orders.
“I bought the calf so they wouldn’t eat it,” she was quoted as saying by the TASS news agency.
Video shared by state media showed Day explaining that he had arranged for a driver to take the calf to Red Square by car. “I wanted to show her a beautiful place in our beautiful country,” he said.
Day had been living in a Moscow suburb on a tourist visa, the Reuters news agency reported, and had carried out similar protests before in other countries.
In 2019, the Daily Mail newspaper reported that he had “rescued” a pig he called Jixy Pixy from a slaughterhouse in the west of England, brought it to London in a taxi and took it for walks and to eat in restaurants, but had to hand it over to an animal caretaker after his landlord discovered that he was keeping him in a small apartment.
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