"I am not a murderer, this is a desperate attempt to show what is happening in Lom,'' said the driver, cutting the brakes of the train in front of BNT.
On June 1, at the station in Lom, a locomotive of the passenger train dawned with the brakes cut and the windshield of the machine broken. The BDZ defined the act as "terrorism". The District Prosecutor's Office in Montana announced that a machinist who was in conflict with his colleagues was arrested for the act.
"I am not a murderer and a terrorist and I don't think I will be. I have 29 years of work experience, I have not committed a safety violation so far, I have no penalties, but in my desperate attempt to show what is happening in Lom from the Lom brigades - I ran to this," he said.
49-year-old driver Nikola Georgiev damaged the locomotive to show that the crew in charge of the train had left the machine unattended, which is a violation. According to him, it was not possible for the train to start and to cause an accident:
"We are assigned to work and we are paid night work for it and we are kept working hours, that is duty. In the evening I got up and got a little more angry than I should, I took the knife with which I eat from my bag. I went and cut the brakes, the hoses between the basket and the bogie of the locomotive and then I also broke the driver's windshield. I did this in a desperate attempt to prove violations that should not allow them. My goal was to prevent the train from leaving the station, so I also broke the driver's window."
When asked why he cut the brakes and didn't just break the glass, Georgiev answered:
"If it's just the broken glass, it's possible to cover it up, because you can move to an interstation with arrangements and no one will know anything. I have spoken and signaled about this many times. About the systemic violations of the locomotive brigades from Lom, who leave the locomotive and go home to sleep. "
Georgiev did not submit official written complaints to the management of the railways:
"If you file a report or complain against someone, after a while they punish us if it turns out to be their people on duty."
"I'm sorry, yes, but at the time I saw only this way to show the managers, the instructor, the head of the depot to take a little stricter measures. And this locomotive brigade has also left the locomotive unattended on other occasions."