The head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Kemerovo region, detained in connection with the fire in the Winter Cherry, resigned
The head of the Kemerovo Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, Alexander Mamontov, accused in a criminal case regarding a fire in the Winter Cherry shopping center, in which 60 people died, wrote a letter of resignation. This was announced by a representative of the prosecutor's office during the court hearing on May 26. “Mamontov wrote a report on his dismissal,” said a representative of the prosecutor’s office, quoted by TASS.