The rector of the Academy of Russian ballet named after Vaganova Nikolai Tsiskaridze called on in his Instagram "to worsen" position Mikhail Efremov after a fatal accident with the actor in the center of Moscow.
Tsiskaridze said that is not a friend of Ephraim, calling the incident a tragedy and expressed condolences to the family of the deceased driver of Sergey Zakharov.
"Completely share their righteous anger. But I can’t see and watch as adjusted to very bad decisions stumbled Mikhail Efremov" – he wrote.
While Tsiskaridze called "not to aggravate the plight of the" artist. "Watching Michael more than a year, I realize what a monstrous moral condition of his soul – to realize the severity of a reckless act that led to the death of an innocent man. Allow me to dispense justice without interference", – concluded the artist.
Accidents involving Ephraim occurred on the evening of 8 June on the Garden ring in Moscow. Being behind the wheel of his car, the artist crossed the double line, drove into the oncoming lane and collided with "Lada", whose driver died in hospital the next day.
Examination has established that at the time of the accident, the actor was drunk, his blood also found traces of drugs. Against him opened a criminal case on violation of traffic regulations in an alcohol intoxication, entailed death of the person. Ephraim faces up to 12 years in prison. Now the artist is under house arrest.
