The "Switch" remains the major

The court in Irkutsk released a policeman detained in the case of "hawthorn"

On Friday, the Kirovsky District Court of Irkutsk freed from the guard in the court of the police officer Denis Cheremisin-the hero of the publication of the Novaya on January 13, “76: 0 in favor of Methanol”. Cheremisin, I recall, was detained on January 11 as part of the investigation of the case of “hawthorn” - a methanol poisoning of 123 people, 76 of whom died. Based on the circumstances of the disaster, 33-year-old Cheremisin, even on the role of a typical “switchman” can only be approached with very large stretches. And now he is threatening up to 10 years.

The RF IC reported that Cheremisin is suspected of negligence - that he did not organize from January 28 to December 31 last year (during the leadership of the district police department of the police department No. 4 of the city department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs) the work of district police officers “properly”. As a result, as the IC of the Russian Federation formulated in a press release, "in one of the trading pavilions, an alcohol-containing liquid was implemented [...], which caused the death of people."

However, concentrate for the adoption of baths "Boyaryshnik" - legal products, and traded them in the pavilion also legally. What does the district police officers have to do with it? They have neither official powers nor legal opportunities to influence the legally working outlet. Its check would be an excess of official powers.

Actually, the same thing that the new wrote about the same was said in the courtroom.

In addition, it turned out: the investigation sees the guilt of Cheremisin in the fact that behind the administrative section of the Leninsky district, where the stall is located, the district police officer was not assigned. However, as Cheremisina’s lawyer Natalya Ryzhova said, her client did not have the authority to consolidate the plots for subordinates; Such orders are prepared and approved by other officials. However, it is also clear that even if the district police officer was prescribed here, he could not prevent mass poisoning. (In general, the number of district police officers in the Cheremisin department is about 30 - by four less than it should be according to the staffing table).

His comrades in the service came to the court to defend Cheremisin. According to their words, last year, the precinct departments amounted to about a thousand protocols about illegal trade in alcohol and surrogates. However, the maximum punishment of merchants is a fine of 5 thousand rubles.

As a result, the scapegoed schedule was released.

Judge Larisa Samtsova refused the investigation in his petition to conclude Cheremisin in custody. It was refused to conclude him under house arrest. It is curious that the representative of the prosecutor's office also spoke out against the house arrest of Cheremisin. The policeman was released under the subscription, which she asked for the defense.

These are the intermediate results of the investigation, which the head of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation Alexander Bastrykin flew to Irkutsk. Why did he not have questions for those units of the Irkutsk police, who, due to official duties, are obliged to identify and suppress the turnover of alcoholsurrogates and such poison as methanol is unknown.

It is early, of course, to talk about the imitating nature of the investigation, but one cannot fail to notice its excellent propaganda support. When Cheremisin was detained, the small head of the department in one of the eleven district departments of the Irkutsk police, hundreds of messages went on the air and the network. Some headlines: “ The head of the Irkutsk Region police is accused of negligence of poisoning“ Hawthorn ” (“ Tsargrad ”),“ The head of the Irkutsk police is suspected of negligence ”(Vesti.ru),“ A senior policeman was detained ”(Life.ru),“ Head of the Irkut Police Detained ”(National News Service),“ The Head of the Irkutsk Police is detained ” ("Parliamentary newspaper"). Etc.

Now, when the “high -ranking” Cheremisin was released, and by the time I transfer these lines to the editor, modest notes were given no more than a dozen news agencies to the tape.