The chief editor of Russia Today Margarita Simonyan called the court in the case of a fatal accident involving Mikhail Efremov “damnedest farce” and condemned the actor for refusing to admit guilt. His opinion is expressed in an Instagram.
I wrote “the Rambler”, the accident occurred in Moscow on 8 June. Car Yefremov, who was in a condition of alcoholic and narcotic intoxication, crashed into a van whose driver Sergey Zakharov died. After a few days on the YouTube channel GrazhdaninPoet has a circulation of Ephraim, in which he asked for forgiveness from the family of the deceased and promised them help, calling it an “attempt to redeem”. However, during the trial Efremov said that he could not plead guilty because “remembers nothing”.
“In the damnedest farce which has become the case of Ephraim. It could repent, to confess, to apologize (and did initially),” said Margarita Simonyan.
She expressed the opinion that the actor in any case will go to a colony-settlement, but now “disgraced”.
