In Zlatoust, protocols were drawn up against ambulance workers after a video message about the lack of additional payments

In Zlatoust, Chelyabinsk region, administrative cases were opened against ambulance workers under the fake news article (part 9 of article 13.15 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) after the publication of a video message about problems with additional payments for working with patients infected with coronavirus. This is reported by MBKh Media with reference to the coordinator of the Human Rights Postcard Alexei Pryanishnikov.

The 39-second video was posted on VKontakte on the page of the civil legal self-defense organization Civil Patrol. In it, ambulance employees make a statement that many paramedics and ambulance drivers did not receive payments for special working conditions during the coronavirus pandemic, stating that they do not work in special teams, although linear teams also come into contact with patients with coronavirus.

After the video was published, administrative cases were opened against seven medical workers, and protocols have already been drawn up for four of them. MBKh Media, citing the wife of the ambulance driver, reports that all four protocols were drawn up against the drivers of the ambulance teams. The video was posted on June 8, and two days later a district policeman called all those present on the video, some of them came home and to work for explanations. And already on June 11, the police issued protocols under the article on the publication in information and telecommunication networks of knowingly false information under the guise of reliable messages that created a public threat (part 9 of article 13.15 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).