Vice Governor Chernov: Participants in the rally in Kemerovo tried to "discredit power"

In Kemerovo, among the participants of the spontaneous rally held on the eve of the death of people at the Winter Cherry shopping center, there were many provocateurs whose actions were aimed at discrediting the authorities. This was stated by the first vice-governor of the region Vladimir Chernov, Interfax reports .

"According to estimates, pre -25-30 percent are those people who came to sympathize with, empathize. But people were also present, we draw conclusions that this is a clearly planned action that was aimed at discrediting as a whole of power structures," Chernov said.

According to the vice-governor, a lot of "heated" youth participated in the action. “There were several guys next to me who behaved absolutely inadequately, sometimes not even realizing that they scream, for which they raise their hands. And when they asked who the relatives had suffered - almost 500 people raised their hands, this should say something,” Chernov noted.

The decision of the governor of the Kemerovo region Aman Tuleyev not to take part in the rally was justified, Chernov said. "I think this is an absolutely correct decision if there is a critic that the governor did not appear at the rally yesterday," the official said.

Tuleev himself said that during the days of the tragedy, "certain forces are trying to steal people." “It’s terribly just swinging the situation,” he said in a video message widespread by the press service of the regional administration. The governor also noted that he deliberately reception of relatives of the victims only from Wednesday. “This reception is difficult, of course. Here I waited - that’s how much time has passed, and since today I start reception, because people have calmed down a little,” Tuleyev said.

On the eve of Tuleyev, at a meeting on the tragedy in the Winter Cherry shopping center, in a conversation with Vladimir Putin, he said that people who speculate “on Mount human” gathered for today's rally and called them “constant bosoters”. “The whole opposition force came at the moment: they go home, go to the enterprises that are nearby, to the residential sector. Today there are about 200 people there. This is not relatives of the dead. We work with them, we say:“ It is impossible, this is sacrilege when you are grief, and you are trying to solve some problems on this, ”the Kremlin press service quoted the governor.

Presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov refused to comment on the statements of representatives of the Kemerovo authorities, but recalled Putin’s call for the inappropriateness of the hasty assessments of the situation. "Putin said that some solutions, some evaluations to give hastily under the cameras are hardly appropriate, the main thing is to understand in detail what happened, find out the reasons and then deliberately give any assessments," Peskov noted.

On a clarifying question, does this mean that the Kremlin currently refuses to comment on the behavior and words of Tuleyev and his deputy, Peskov said: "Yes, I will not do it."

On Wednesday, Tuleyev resigned from the posts of the vice-governor Alexei Zelenin and the head of the Department of Internal Policy, Interfax reports . "Deputy Governor and Head of the Department of Internal Policy Nina Lopatin were removed from his posts," the agency’s source said. According to him, Olga Turbab, First Deputy Head of Kemerov, will take the place of Zelenin, and Lopatina will take her deputy Valentina Nazim.

The fire in the Winter Cherry occurred on Sunday evening . The fire covered the entire fourth floor of the shopping center. The building collapsed in the building. On Wednesday, the Ministry of Emergencies reported the discovery of the remains of 64 dead. The department said that one hundred missing are not. However, in the initiative group of citizens, the list includes another 13 people, the loss of which relatives reported.

On Tuesday, about five thousand people came to Kemerov’s central square to the spontaneous rally . The audience chanted the "Truth!" And they demanded the resignation of Tuleyev. Vice-governors Chernov Sergey Tsivilev and mayor Kemerova Ilya Seredyuk came to the protesters. Tsimeleev first accused of PR on the mountain the moderator of the rally Igor Vostrikov, who lost three children, his wife and sister during the fire. However, then the vice-governor on his knees asked for forgiveness from the audience.

Protesters demanded that Tuleyev and Putin come to them, who at that time a meeting in the regional administration. However, the president and the governor did not appear on the square. At the meeting, Tuleyev told the president: "Vladimir Vladimirovich, you personally called me. Once again, thanks to the great. I apologize to you personally for what happened on our territory."