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The Chechen opened shooting from a machine gun on New Basmann Street
A native of Chechnya arranged on Thursday a firing machine in the center of Moscow. According to Friday, MK-Novosti agency in the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the capital, at 21:30 in the courtyard of the house on New Basmannaya 35-year-old resident of the same house.
As it turned out, the criminal was intoxicated. According to the investigation, he fired 10 shots from the AKM machine gun. No one was injured. The criminal was detained. A criminal case has been opened.
Meanwhile, despite the intense psychological situation in the capital after the terrorist attack, according to law enforcement agencies of the Russian Federation, so far the unit clashes on interethnic grounds are registered. However, now the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs intends to suppress extremist actions against immigrants from the Caucasus, primarily Chechens.
“Many extremist organizations, including youth, are looking for only a reason for manifesting their inclinations. We will not allow the latest events in Moscow to serve as an impetus for extremist actions,” Alexander Chekalin, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, told Interfax.
Chekalin recalled that under control in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation there are about four thousand active participants and leaders of youth extremist groups.
“So far, there are single cases of an extremist attitude towards immigrants from the Caucasus. But we react to each of them tightly,” Chekalin assured. The place with that, he noted the need to increase vigilance from Russian citizens.
“All observations about the appearance of any suspicious persons, especially in abandoned places - in basements, in attics, garages, unfinished houses, should immediately communicate to the nearest internal affairs bodies,” Chekalin noted.
In addition, he called for reporting to the police about possible conversations with "terrorist terminology or with the mention of weapons and explosives, whose witnesses could become individual citizens."