Investigation: the Winter Cherry security guard behaved strangely at the time of the fire
A security guard at the Winter Cherry shopping center in Kemerovo, where a fire claimed 64 lives on Sunday, Sergei Antyushin admitted that he did not press the alert button “because he was confused,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“The alarm system was turned off for several days. I wrote a report on this matter. I worked there for more than three years, and something was always faulty,” Antyushin said today in the Zavodsky District Court of Kemerovo. He does not admit his guilt in what happened.
Today in this court, but at a meeting that determined the preventive measure for the general director of the shopping center, Nadezhda Suddenok, the testimony of the children's center instructor Sergei Sochinsky was read out, which noted the strange behavior of Antyushin.
“I was surprised by the reaction of the security guard on the first floor. It was a young guy named Sergei. He sat calmly at his workplace near the escalator. I burst into his premises and saw that he was watching real-time monitors from cameras that were installed on all floors of the complex. I clearly saw that all the cells from the fourth floor were black. That is, they were either already burned out and did not work, or were filled with smoke. I demanded that the fire alarm be turned on. The fireman started pressing some buttons, but nothing worked. However, he never asked what kind of fire it was,” said Sudeikin.
He notes that smoke appeared within seconds on the fourth floor, where the fire started. The alarm didn't work, so when he brought his visitors out, people on the lower floors were walking around quietly, and he had to shout.
Today the court chose arrest as a preventive measure for all those detained in the case of the fire at Winter Cherry: the general director of the entertainment center Nadezhda Suddenok, the technical director Georgy Sobolev, the security guard Sergei Antyushin, as well as for Alexander Nikitin and Igor Polozinenko, who provided security systems.
None of those arrested admit their guilt.
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