DPNI rally in Moscow

March 16, 2004 in Moscow at the TsPKIO im. Gorky The Movement Against Illegal Immigration held a sanctioned anti-Chechen rally in Moscow.

According to official information, it was not the DPNI, but a group of people who applied for permission to hold a rally called "Muscovites against terror and a terrorist attack in the Moscow metro . " Permission was given by the Moscow Prefecture.

were taken from its participants Before the start of the rally at the entrance to the Central Park of Culture and Culture, posters of nationalist content such as "The worst fascism is Jewish" .

The protesters held posters "Not registration, but deportation", "Death to terrorists" , etc. According to eyewitnesses, about 200 people, mostly skinheads, gathered in the Central Park of Culture and Culture. One of the most prominent defendants in the event was Alexander Sevastyanov, co-chairman of the National Power Party of the Russian Federation.

Shortly before the rally, leaflets were posted in the Moscow metro: "Let's clear Moscow of Chechen bandits!"

About ten activists of leftist organizations tried to prevent the rally from taking place and were beaten by skinheads. Subsequently, several people were detained and taken to the 59th police station.

Members of other organizations were also detained and taken to the same police station, who were holding anti-FSB posters that had nothing to do with the DPNI action. According to Kirill Mazurin, head of the information and public relations department of the Moscow Main Internal Affairs Directorate, "the protesters unfurled posters with accusations against the FSB and other slogans that had no direct relation to the topic of the rally . "

The first attempt to hold an unsanctioned rally against the "dominance" in Moscow of visitors from the southern republics was made on February 20, 2004 on Lubyanskaya Square.

Sources

• The prefecture of the Central District of Moscow did not see through the plans of skinheads // IA REGNUM. March 16, 2004