On Wednesday, August 18, a court hearing was held in the case of an accident with the participation of Mikhail Efremov, at which witnesses from the defense of the actor spoke.

Note that the meeting was interrupted due to the evacuation after an anonymous message about an explosive device. Emergency services checked the building and found no threat.

A day earlier, in court, the widow, brother and youngest son of Sergei Zakharov, who died in the accident with Efremov, sued the actor for a symbolic amount of 1 ruble. According to their lawyer, no amount of money can compensate for the loss of a loved one. Meanwhile, the eldest son of the deceased intends to seek compensation for moral damage in the amount of 6.5 million rubles.

The first witness at the meeting on August 19 was a colleague of the actor Nikita Vysotsky, who gave Efremov a positive characteristic.

“The person is very versatile, gifted, religious, kind, impulsive and emotional,” he said at the Presnensky Court in Moscow. According to him, Efremov is responsible for his actions.

"I ask the court to take into account his qualities, he helped a huge number of people, made an operation for an unfamiliar woman for his money ... He got a job, he paid money, he gave money to a charitable foundation ... He works a lot," Vysotsky quotes RIA News.

The witness asked not to represent Efremov as a "major who is allowed to do everything." In addition, according to Vysotsky, the actor sent a wreath to the funeral of Sergei Zakharov, who died in an accident, which was allegedly later thrown away.

As a reminder, on June 8, on Smolenskaya Square, Mikhail Efremov's Jeep Grand Cherokee drove into the oncoming lane and crashed into a Lada van. The driver of the second car, Sergei Zakharov, died in hospital from his injuries.

Later, an examination established that at the time of the accident the artist was in a state of alcoholic intoxication. Traces of drugs were also found in his blood.

A few days after the accident, Efremov published a video in which he apologized to the family of the deceased, but later said that he could not admit his guilt, because he did not remember the moment of the accident.

Actress Tatyana Berkovich became the second witness for the defense at today's meeting. According to her, from the first day, she and other friends of Efremov were ready to help the victims.

“But Dobrovinsky (the lawyer of the injured party. - RT ) appeared and, from my point of view, started the performance: he said that the victims did not need anything,” Berkovich said.

In addition, she also gave a characterization to Efremov and stated that he usually did not drive after drinking alcohol.

“I have never seen this, never sat down and tried, there were no impulses for this. He always left with someone's help: a taxi, friends, a director, ”Berkovich said, adding that he has been friends with the actor for 25 years.

She added that Efremov lives a hundred meters from the bar and walks on foot: "He has his own route there, every dog ​​knows him there."

Poet Andrei Orlov (Orlusha), who also testified for the defense in court, said that Efremov drank, but did not drive drunk.

“If you want to ask whether Mikhail drank, Mikhail never hid it, and I don’t hide it either,” Orlov said. At the same time, he assured that the artist always called a sober driver or taxi.

Lawyer Efremov's statements

The lawyer of the actor Mikhail Efremov Elman Pashayev, in turn, said that he did not talk about the stroke with his client. Meanwhile, on August 12, the lawyer argued that doctors confirmed this diagnosis in Efremov.

“I didn't say that. Where is this record at all, can you show it? " - he said, answering a question from a media employee why he announced a stroke at Efremov. In response, the journalists said that Pashayev had voiced this information publicly in front of many cameras.

  • Efremov's lawyer said he did not talk about the actor's stroke

“In the future, when I need a witness to lie to my face so brazenly, I will invite you and pay you worthily,” the lawyer said in response.

Along with this, Pashayev mentioned that in the auto-technical examination of an accident with the participation of his client, actor Mikhail Efremov, they undeservedly bypassed the version of interception by hackers of car control.

The lawyer noted that "the issue of influence via satellite on the control system, laser blinding, unexpected call, injection of toxic substances through the air conditioning system has not been disclosed." In addition, he said there was information about "the influence of hackers on driving."

Among other things, the lawyer pointed out the need to study when the asphalt was poured, what is the adhesion coefficient, what reagents the road was treated with, whether there is a track, as well as the statistics of car malfunctions.