The head of the district in Khakassia attacked the correspondent of Russia 24 during the filming of the plot about fires

The head of the Shirinsky district of Khakassia, Sergei Zaitsev, attacked the correspondent of Russia 24 by Ivan Litomin during the filming of the plot about the consequences of fires in the republic. The video is published on the website of the TV channel.

The release of the “duty unit” program of May 25 states that journalists went to the head of the Shirinsky district to find out why local residents complain about the quality of housing that the authorities provided to them after natural fires in 2015.

During the interview, the head of the district tried to take away the microphone from the correspondent of Litoma, after which he grabbed the journalist under his arms and sharply knocked on the floor. “I went out, said, from here!”, The official shouted. After that, the film crew was pushed out of the office.

Later, the Secretary of the Ethics Commission of the United Russia party, Yevgeny Revenko, apologized for his one -partyist Zaitsev and assured that in the near future the behavior of the head of the district will be considered by the party commission on ethics.

“No matter how difficult and unpleasant questions they ask, any member of the United Russia party <...> is obliged to answer them. <...> On behalf of the whole party "United Russia", I apologize to the entire journalistic community for the ugly scene that Sergei Zaitsev allowed himself, "Revenko said.

Correspondent Ivan Litomin is known as the author of the plot on “Russia 24” about the attack on the organizer of the Moscow Gay Vozda Nikita Egorov-Kirillov. In the plot, the journalist calls the meeting “Non -traditional party”, “Schabash” and “TRASH”, and also manually reads the story of the witness of Kirillov’s beating.

Updated at 23:20. Added information "United Russia".