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Flame of Kostroma
13 people died as a result of the night arson of a cafe in Kostroma, owned by a local deputy. Probably the culprit of the incident is a military man who returned from Ukraine. Main
On the night of November 5, a large -scale fire occurred in the Kostroma cafe "Polygon" owned by the local deputy of the regional Duma from United Russia. Throughout the area of the institution - 3.5 thousand square meters. m. - the roof collapsed. About 250 people were evacuated, 13 people died. As a version of the fire, the prosecutor's office considers the use of pyrotechnics; It is also known that before the fire in the cafe there was a mass fight. SK opened two criminal cases. The police detained a suspect in arson-according to telegram channels, a 23-year-old military who recently returned from Ukraine.
Fire
Information about the fire in the cafe was received at 02:37 Moscow time. At this time, there were a large number of people in it, about 250 people were evacuated. According to the source of Izvestia, four people are listed as missing. In emergency services, TASS told that as a result of a fire in a cafe there was a collapse of the roof of a cafe over the entire area - 3.5 thousand square meters. m.
According to law enforcement agencies, the suspect “shot several times in a club from a hunting rocket launcher,” which led to a fire. TASS reported that before the fire in the cafe there was a mass fight, several participants of which were injured, but "this has nothing to do with the fire."
The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case on causing death by negligence to two or more persons (part 3 of article 109 of the Criminal Code), as well as a criminal case B of the provision of services that do not meet the requirements of security and entailed the death of two or more persons (part 3 of article 238 of the Criminal Code).
Mash telegram channel leads the stories of eyewitnesses of the fire. 45-year-old Sergei Vinogradov told Mash that he and his friends helped to pull people out of the burning room through the window. According to the man, everything happened like this:
Music played, people danced, and then a flash appeared - and the plastic ceiling immediately caught fire,
People ran to the only non -blocked exit - for the "turntable". “When I got out, I realized that the fire burned his back and hands,” said Sergey.
Also, the local resident Andrei Kuzmin helped people to pull out people. According to a telegram channel, he knocked out one of the closed evacuation exits so that people could go out. “Previously, only three of the seven fire exits worked in the institution on Nikitskaya Street, the rest were locked,” Mash said .
A video also appeared on the network, which, presumably, captures the beginning of a fire. On the frames, a burning ceiling is visible and the cries of people who are trying to leave the institution are heard.
Suspects
The police later detained the suspect in arson. He pleaded guilty. In official sources, his name is not disclosed, however, according to Izvestia, Baza and 112 telegram channels, the detainee is called Stanislav Ionkin, he is 23 years old, he is a military man, and recently returned from the war in Ukraine.
“On August 22, 23-year-old Stanislav Ionkin was injured during the shelling. According to relatives, Ionkin with other military personnel was injected when shelling began. Stanislav was thrown out of the car and he broke his leg. After that, Ionkin was sent to a hospital in the Astrakhan region, and then he returned to the Kostroma region, ”writes Baza.
According to the telegram channel, Stanislav was on the sick leave for a long time, and in early November he again went to the military unit to pass the medical board. The night before, he phoned his relatives and said that he was doing well, and then went to the night club at the Polygon cafe.
A few hours later, the UK reported that the director of the Empire company, which organized the work of the Polygon club in Kostroma, was also detained. It passes a suspect in the criminal case on the provision of services that do not meet security requirements (part 3 of article 238 of the Criminal Code).
The second detainee is a 23-year-old man who is suspected of using a pyrotechnical agent in a cafe, which previously led to a fire. He is taking place in the case of death by negligence to two or more persons (part 3 of article 109 of the Criminal Code), the department said.
Compensation from the deputy
The official bodies are called the "landfill" of the cafe, a number of media outlets - a night club. On the Yandex-Cards, the “landfill” is indicated as “Karaoke Club, Bar, Pab, Night Club”, and in Google cards-“Entertainment Center”.
The General Director of the Polygon LLC, which is registered in the same place where the cafe of the same name caught fire, is the deputy of the Kostroma Regional Duma and a member of the United Russia faction I. Ihtiyar Mirzoev. Information about this is on the website of the Kostroma Regional Duma. TASS clarifies that, according to the Analytical System of Spark, Mirzoev is indeed the owner of the cafe.
Mirzoev, in an interview with journalists, expressed condolences to the relatives and friends of the people who died in this tragedy, and promised to help the families of the dead in a fire.
“I instructed my employees to provide all the necessary assistance to the investigating authorities.
I will provide all the necessary assistance to the relatives and friends of the dead.
I will provide families with both financial and organizational support, ”he said.
The head of the region Sergey Sitnikov also expressed condolences. He visited the fire site and checked the organization of assistance to the victims, local media reported . Sitnikov promised to assist the families of the dead.
According to Caution, News, the Ministry of Emergencies had to open the doors of the Kostroma cafes with grinds during the fire, because the doors were closed. Later, the prosecutor's office confirmed that part of the emergency exits was blocked. There were no checks in the institution - as the department itself said , for the reason that the owner of the facility was an individual entrepreneur, which belongs to the category of a micro -enterprise (small business).
“In addition, the tenant of Polygon LLC in 2019 stopped activities at this facility, which he notified the supervisory authority,” reporters explained in the Russian Emergencies Ministry.
Based on the results of the prosecutor’s inspection, the third criminal case can be instituted - according to paragraph 3 of Art. 293 of the Criminal Code (“negligence, which entailed by negligence, the death of two or more persons”), RIA Novosti reports.
According to the site of United Russia, Izhtiyar Mirzoev became the general director of Polygon LLC in December 2006. Since 2005, Mirzoev has been a deputy of the Kostroma Regional Duma of IV, V and VI convocations, as well as a member of the Duma Committee on Economic Policy and Entrepreneurship.
As the Agency notes , the night fire in Kostroma is the largest in Russian clubs since the time of Lame Horse. A similar tragedy occurred in Perm in December 2009, when the club’s administration launched the fireworks in the Lame Horse establishment and a fire began. 155 people were killed in it, and the government of the region was resigned in full force. Then Russian President Vladimir Putin said that it is required to “finally revise” the principles and content of fire supervision.