MOSCOW, 15 Sep. The defendant in the criminal case on the death of a woman and a girl as a result of watermelon poisoning in the southeast of Moscow, Anton Kotov was taken to the Presnensky Court of Moscow, RIA Novosti was told in court. Earlier, the investigation petitioned for his detention. Kotov is an employee of the Regional Disinfection Center, who carried out insect treatment at the store where the watermelon was purchased. It was the violations of the disinsection rules, according to the investigators, that caused the incident. «The management and employees of the company in which the suspect was employed have already been interrogated. The investigation continues to work to establish all the circumstances of the incident,» said Yulia, a senior assistant to the head of the Moscow headquarters of the RF IC Ivanova. According to the head office of the RF IC, the family bought a watermelon in the Magnit store on Sovkhoznaya Street. The retail chain later announced that it was conducting an internal investigation and, pending clarification of the reasons for the incident, was withdrawing from the sale the entire batch of watermelons that were presented in the store.
The head of the company that carried out the disinsection of Magnit, defended the employee The Moscow Health Department noted that the exact cause of death will be established after receiving the results of a forensic medical examination. «. Meanwhile, the general director of the Regional Center for Disinfection Dmitry Kutyev in social networks said that poisoning with insect repellent Tsigatrin in the dosage used in the store is impossible.
The results of the examination of the watermelon, which poisoned the family in Moscow, became known
