Bastrykin: High -ranking officials interfered with checks in the "Winter Cherry"

Inspections of compliance with fire safety standards in the burned Kemerovo shopping center "Winter Cherry" were hindered by some "high -ranking officials". This was stated by Chairman of the Investigative Committee of Alexander Bastrykin at a meeting with relatives of the dead in a fire, Interfax reports .

Bastrykin did not specify who specifically he had in mind. According to the head of the Investigative Committee, the investigation in the fire of the fire saw the guilt of these officials in the tragedy.

In particular, Bastrykin said, in 2016 the fire service employees tried to check the shopping center, but the audit was not carried out, because "one senior official intervened in this process." At the disposal of the Investigative Committee, there is an act of disruption of the audit and a document on its ban, added the chairman of the investigation department.

The head of the Investigative Committee also said that during the fire, the door of one of the cinema halls in the Winter Cherry, in which several dozen people burned alive, were locked with a lock with a lock. “Several men pulled him out, but saw a wall of black smoke, after which they decided to close in the hall, plugging all the cracks with clothes from the smoke,” the security forces explained.

According to Kemerovo, Igor Vostrikov , who lost his wife, sister and three young children during the fire, the doors to the film calls were initially not closed. According to him, in one of them, after the start of the door of the door, the viewer closed the door, trying to restrain the spread of fire. According to Vostrikov, this person managed to escape.

So far, only the head of the inspection of the regional state building supervision of Tanzil Komkov is taking place among officials in the case of a fire in the Winter Cherry - itwas arrested on March 31 .

On April 4, it was reported that the search in the case was held in the house of the head of the Kemerovo department of the Ministry of Emergencies Alexander Mamontov. The official himself denied information about investigative actions in his regard. Mamontov was not detained; There was also no accusations of him either.