Two Russians and one Belarusian were accused of the Minsk “bloody salute”
The Investigative Committee of Belarus has charged two employees of a Russian fireworks manufacturer and a company commander of the Minsk military commandant's office with explosions of fireworks on July 3, 2019, which resulted in the death of a person.
This was reported on the official website of the Investigative Committee of Belarus, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
They are accused of violating the rules for handling pyrotechnic products, resulting in the death of a person through negligence, and causing damage on a large scale.
Employees of the Minsk military commandant's office revealed that most of the 195 mm fireworks shells purchased in Russia had a diameter exceeding the norm.
Belarusian investigators believe that Russian engineers were sent to Minsk precisely to replace defective products. However, instead, he and the company commander “modified them by making changes (reducing the diameter through mechanical action),” which led to explosions.
As a result, the shells exploded at low altitude and in the barrels of mortars, which led to the death of the woman. Another 11 people were injured. Damage was caused in the amount of 740 thousand Belarusian rubles (22 million Russian rubles).
The defendants in the explosion case are 25-year-old Maximilian Sapronov and 28-year-old Konstantin Denisov, employees of the Russian company Piro-Ross from Sergiev Posad. Both have higher education and worked for the Piro-Ross company for several years. On the eve of Independence Day, they arrived in Minsk as consultants. Both have been in a Belarusian pre-trial detention center for 8 months.
The head of design bureau No. 3 of Piro-Ross OJSC, Andrei Inkin, previously stated that his employees did not touch the shells for the fireworks, but only agreed on its scenario. All manipulations were carried out by the Belarusian military. At the same time, the warranty period of the gun from which the volleys were fired was expired.
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