Police issue apology for filming video against backdrop of burning oil depot in Adler

Three residents of Nizhny Tagil, after being detained by the police, apologized for filming a video against the backdrop of an oil depot in Adler that caught fire after a drone attack.

As "Kavkazsky Uzel wrote, last night at an oil depot in the Adler district, as a result of a drone attack, a 2,000 cubic meter tanker with oil products caught fire. Five garages in a garage cooperative and a store on Aviatsionnaya Street were also damaged. According to the authorities, there are no casualties. During the day, the authorities reported that the fire had been localized. According to the Sochi administration's Telegram channel, as of 16:17 Moscow time, the fire was completely extinguished.

Kuban police detained three people who filmed and distributed a video shot against the backdrop of a burning oil depot in Adler.

This morning, public pages in Krasnodar Krai began distributing a video in which two girls filmed a lip sync (a short video to a song in which its characters pretend to recite the lyrics - note from "Caucasian Knot"). Some channels blurred the characters' faces, while others left them openly accessible. The video was responded to by the Krasnodar Territory Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which called the teenagers "desperate zoomers" and reported the start of an investigation and "measures to establish their identity," while the police posted a screenshot of the video.

This afternoon, the police reported the detention of all three participants in the video, who came from Nizhny Tagil, 19, 20 and 21 years old. A protocol was drawn up against the girl who posted the video on TikTok for violating the rules of conduct during a high alert regime (Part 1 of Article 20.6.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation provides for sanctions in the form of a fine of up to 30 thousand rubles).

In the video published on the Kuban police Telegram channel, a voiceover asks the girl if they were drunk and for what purpose they filmed the video. The girl said that the video was filmed to show a fire and stated that she admits her guilt and repents.

Next All three participants of the video lined up in front of the camera. "We are from Nizhny Tagil, we came to the city of Sochi to find employment. We offer our sincere apologies for filming the videos against the backdrop of the burning and posting them on social media. We undertake not to make such mistakes in the future. The video has already been deleted. "We are ready to be punished," he said.

"Caucasian Knot" previously reported that the Kuban police detained an underage student for provocative publications on Telegram and forced him to apologize on camera.

An athlete from Krasnodar Krai, Vladimir Vanyan (Ivanyan), was also detained after a stream in which he used obscene language about FSB officers. After his detention, he publicly apologized and said that he "will serve with weapons in his hands in the SVO." The court fined Vanyan 150 thousand rubles.

At the instigation of the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, the practice of public apologies has gone beyond the republic and spread to other regions of Russia. More about this practice can be read in the "Caucasian Knot" help section "The Fashion for Apologies: From Chechnya to the Outskirts". "Caucasian Knot" also maintains a "Chronicle of Public Apologies in the Caucasus", and posts news about the latest apologies on the thematic page "Whom the Caucasus Makes Apologize".

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