“Often the investigators unreasonably connect the occurrence of fires with thunderstorms and even do so if there is a categorical opinion of experts on fire due to a fire source,” TASS quoted Buksman.

So, according to him, in the Khabarovsk Territory, the inquiry bodies did not check 15 acts of forest fires containing signs of Art. 261 of the Criminal Code.

In order to rectify the situation, the GP urged to immediately reconcile the materials and stop the practice of formal cancellation of the decision, to seek criminal cases.

Earlier, a case of negligence due to a forest fire was opened in Yakutia, the area of ​​which, as a result of unjustified suspension of extinguishing work, increased almost 500 times.