
The fire occurred in the office of RT-Invest LLC Transport Systems in Kemerovo, reports Taiga.info . The company is the operator of the system for charging from truckers for travel along federal routes.
The fire occurred on the night of January 8 in the operator’s premises on 67 Lenin Avenue. According to eyewitnesses, unknown people threw a bottle out of the Molotov cocktail window. The fire was extinguished, instead of broken glasses on the ground floor of the building, they installed shields from chipboard.
The Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergencies in the Kemerovo region previously reported the elimination of fire in one of the offices on Lenin Avenue, without specifying the affiliation. It is known that 26 people and seven units of equipment were involved in extinguishing.
The regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs could not immediately clarify whether a check was carried out on the fact of arson.
The introduction of a compulsory travel fee along the federal routes caused protests of truckers throughout the country. In Siberia, mass rallies took place in Novosibirsk, Tomsk and Barnaul.