Nine people were detained on an opposition bike racket in Moscow

On May 11, at 22.00, a protest bike racket of solidarity with the defendant of the “swamp business” Alexei Gaskarov was supposed to start on Trubnaya Square.

Police actions almost thwarted the event. At least nine people were detained.

According to journalist Yevgeny Levkovich, detention were carried out in a rough form. “The people on a pipe in a hard form twist riot police. For the fact that they ride bicycles. They are loaded into auto -zaks along with bicycles. Pretead -“ Punishment on the base, ” Levkovich wrote on Facebook.

The bike racket in support of Gaskarov took place, despite the detention. According to participants, up to a hundred people joined the action.

The anti -fascist Alexei Gaskarov, who was accused of on May 6 last year led a “crowd of aggressive youth”, was detained on April 28 as a witness when he went to the store for cat food. Later it became known that he became the 28th person involved in the “swamp business”. Already on April 29, the Basmanny Court arrested Gaskarov for two months.