Crushed in sloppiness

The switchman was drunk. The expert opinion of Vladimir Markin, the official representative of the Investigative Committee, has excited the minds for several hours and brought the vast majority of copyright comments to one short conclusion. Gouging, mess, national shame.

Everyone, from the deputy minister of transport to the last microblorer, cursed Russian drunkenness, and here a variety of people converged in their opinion. Including fierce oppositionists and windows, and only the most advanced from the conspiracy therapists looked at the root: what kind of drunkenness was there, it was a conspiracy! .. Enemies tuned a plane crash in which the old friend of Russia and Putin’s interlocutor Christof de Margeri died.

Conspirologists were right in their own way. However, the version of terrorists in Vnukov is hardly confirmed, but the exclusive is already refuted from Markin. Vladimir Martynenko, the driver of the snowplower machine, which was faced with the plane of the French oil industry, was absolutely sober. As the doctors both the suspect and his lawyer testify. And investigators no longer insist, as you can understand, on the original version, considering the most diverse. Among them are pilots error, and a failure in the work of dispatchers, and bad weather conditions.

If investigators do not interfere, then they will have a long and painstaking work, and today it is important for us to understand another. Why, not knowing anything about the tragedy, the society believed so recklessly in the "drunk janitor"? Well, yes, drunkenness at the workplace is a tradition consecrated for centuries, but Markin’s reputation seems even worse than collective sloppers? And when he talks about the case of Alexei Navalny, about the "Russian -speaking genocide" in the Donbass or the "crimes" of Nadezhda Savchenko, it becomes clear to a normal person from the first words that the "representative" is engaged in politics or lies directly. Why did his statement not cause the slightest doubt yesterday?

Apparently, this is the same tradition.

We know about drunkenness as the fun of Rus' from personal experience and inconsolable historical chronicles, and recently we learned about Markin. Therefore, they have not yet got used to the idea that he was lying how he breathes and is easily capable of slander a person. Although from the same chronicles and the same personal experience we could endure that the punitive essence of the department in which he serves is also consecrated for centuries. And if this dubolon car discovers next to the crime scene of a person, then he immediately catches him, and puts him, and then judges and condemns him. Therefore, from the first minute, Markin knew that the detainee Martynenko was drunk.

By the way, all of the above does not mean at all that the driver is innocent. It is not yet clear why his snowplow was on the runway, what is the measure of responsibility of the senior engineer and dispatcher, why the walkie -talkie did not work. You can’t ask the pilot, but his actions also need to be tested.

If a plane crash in Vnukov, due to the incoming political circumstances, will entail a cruel punishment for people who are not involved or completely unquenchable, then the feeling of national shame will only aggravate

There is such a journalistic commandment: the news of the first hours after the tragedy is obviously unreliable. Almost any sensational information in these cases is based on hearing and false evidence. Apparently, this axiom should be supplemented by another, just discovered. You should not believe Markin, and if the name of the criminal is announced in his department and present evidence, then the situation is at least much more complicated. Well, the presumption of innocence should not be forgotten. The security forces and their press services never knew about her, but we must remember.

It will come in handy in life, I assure you.

The case of a plane crash in Vnukov is just starting to investigate, and if again to speak with caution, only the most obvious things should be stated. Of course, this is a political matter. Is a joke, a Western businessman died at the Moscow Airport, and one of those few who consistently advocated the abolition of anti -Russian sanctions. It is clear that the case will be controlled at the very top, and there is a risk that people involved in the fall of Falcon, one way or another, will try to roll up to the fullest. Demonstrating the stiffness and intransigence of individual manifestations of slack, or even drunkenness at workplaces.

Thinking about it is as sad as the fate of the dead. And if their death, due to the acting political circumstances, will entail a cruel punishment for people who are not involved or completely uninhabited in the plane crash, then the feeling of national shame (you can’t argue with this feeling). The authorities, preoccupied with the vast incident in Vnukov, but are supposed to remember, who are unlucky in our society, is supposed to remember to remember.

That is why Vladimir Martynenko and his possible other accomplices, ordinary switchmen and difficult, should be observed with special attention. Of course, without missing a single statement on this subject from the lips of Vladimir Markin, and he will probably speak out more than once.

Ilya Milstein - political commentator and publicist

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