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“It is important for you to push aside the problem of ordinary people”: a resident of a house that exploded in Magnitogorsk responded to the governor’s accusations of “dancing on the bones”
Aleksey Sokolov , the author of a petition asking to resettle the tenants of a multi-storey building in Magnitogorsk, which suffered from an explosion, responded to the words of the governor of the Chelyabinsk region Boris Dubrovsky that the supporters of this idea are "dancing on the bones."
After a high-rise building in Magnitogorsk was recognized in his Telegram channel as safe for living and the authorities decided to divide it into two separate residential buildings, Dubrovsky stated : “Someone is trying to dance on the bones. They start collecting some signatures, shaking the situation.” He added that until the end of the work, the residents of the fifth and sixth entrances will either be placed in temporary residences, or they will be helped to rent housing.
“If the house is absolutely safe, if the apartments in this building have not depreciated, and there are no problems with those who want to live in a divided house, then why not allocate money for those who wish to have apartments of equal value in another area?” & —
Sokolov objected to him - the petition he created on the Change.org platform has already collected almost one hundred thousand signatures. In his apartment at 164 Karl Marx Avenue, his mother lived for about thirty years, who, after the end of the search and rescue operation, decided to return to her.
The day before, on January 9, when heavy equipment arrived to remove the rubble, she called him and said that she was awakened and greatly frightened by the roar from the crane. If even before that she could not move away after the explosion for a long time (“Every day her eyes are wet, the pressure goes off scale, she is on pills”), now until the end of the work, which, according to the neighbors, will last about a month and a half, the man took her to yourself.
Sokolov told Novaya Gazeta that he decided to answer the governor, because he thought that in his statement about “collecting some signatures,” he was talking about him and his petition. He noted that the residents are not trying to make money in any way, asking the state to provide equivalent apartments: although their former ones were not destroyed in the explosion, it is no longer possible to feel safe in them again.
An explosion in a residential building on Karl Marx Avenue in Magnitogorsk occurred on the morning of December 31. As a result, the apartments of one of the entrances located from the third to the tenth floor collapsed. 39 people died under the rubble.
According to the official version of the investigation, there was an explosion of household gas in the house. However, investigators “continue to work out all versions of the explosion,” which ones are not specified. As previously reported , no traces of explosives were found by experts.
The city authorities later reported that the porches that survived after the explosion would be left, and the affected 7th and 8th porches would be demolished, making two separate buildings out of the house. At the same time, one of the residents of the sixth entrance, in a conversation with a Novaya correspondent, complained about cracks in the walls. “I had a gap in my room between the ceiling and the wall, a solid crack on the ceiling, and several cracks on the walls themselves,” he said.