In 2021, the Kyiv City Prosecutor’s Office tried to stop the operation of the attraction over the Dnieper, where the cable broke on the afternoon of July 21.
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The institution’s press service reported this to Obshchestvenny.
The defendants in the case were the executive body of the Kyiv City Council (KCCA), the PLESO municipal enterprise and the LLC that won the competition.
The prosecutors asked to declare illegal and cancel the Kyiv City State Administration’s decision that the winner of the investment competition was a company without “experience in operating attractions of this type, given their potential danger to life and health.”
At that time, the courts and the defendants, represented by the capital’s officials, did not agree that the cable car across the Dnieper was considered a high-risk attraction.
At the time of the investment competition and the trial, the design and technical documentation for the attraction had not been developed, the report says.
The prosecutor’s office notes that “none of the Kyiv City State Administration officials who held the competition to determine the winner were concerned about this before the tragic incident.”
Let us recall that the cable car across the Dnieper, which is located near the Pedestrian Bridge, broke in the capital.
The women, who were on the Pedestrian Bridge at the time, watched as people descended the cable car, but the cable subsequently broke.
Somewhere in the middle, before our eyes, the rope breaks and the person falls into the water. She tried to emerge from under the water, but she was wearing equipment, witnesses of the incident told Obshchestvenny.
Alexander and Kristina, who were riding scooters along the Dnieper at the time, became eyewitnesses. Immediately from the bridge, they started shouting at them to pull this cable.
He was quite heavy. Together with others, he was pulled out after about 15-20 minutes, but without the man. Then the police asked us to show the approximate location of the fall. As we understood, the guy was the first to go down, and his brother was riding behind and it was him they were looking for, they say.
Kiev residents helped pull the cable out of the river. Traffic on the Embankment Highway was difficult.
As of 16:00, rescuers have surveyed 2.5 thousand km² of the river bottom. Five divers and one boat are working at the site.
They organized the delivery of air cylinders so that the rescuers would not stop and continue the search. Probably, it could have been a 20-year-old guy, – said a representative of the capital’s State Emergency Service.
Rope jumping staff from the Pedestrian Bridge reported that the cable car cable broke.
It was a metal cable that broke, stretched nearby, not ours. However, we will not work today, – the workers said.
At first, the Kyiv City State Administration noted that rescuers were looking for a girl who fell into the Dnieper after the ride’s cable broke. However, over time, they clarified that there was a guy “approximately 30 years old” there.
The city will require law enforcement officials to conduct a thorough investigation of both the emergency situation itself and the activities of the company operating the attraction, the statement said.
The police have already opened criminal proceedings under two articles of the Criminal Code:
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violation of safety rules by a person who is obliged to comply with them, if this violation created a threat of death to people – Part 2, Article 272 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine;
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official negligence resulting in the death of a person – Part 3 of Article 367 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
Source: Racurs
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