Beating of Udmurt guest workers in Aleksandrov

On April 9, 2004, a mass brawl between Udmurt workers and local residents took place in a cafe in the city of Aleksandrov, Vladimir Region.

Presumably, the incident was provoked by local residents who attacked the workers of the Vestel-SNG plant, residents of Udmurtia, who were sent to this enterprise. Several dozen people were involved in the fight. Not only fists were used, but fragments of bottles.

Several people, mostly migrant workers, were forced to seek medical help, two were hospitalized with serious bodily injuries.

Officially, no information about the fight was reported. But visitors to the Aleksandrov.ru website blamed workers from Udmurtia for everything. "These ... Udmurts attacked innocent people. Let them sit in their republic and don't show their nose from there . "

However, judging by the fact that the residents of the city of Aleksandrov unofficially accuse workers from Udmurtia of creating unemployment, the journalists put forward a version that the fight was provoked by local residents.

Udmurt migrant workers were beaten in the suburbs//AIF (Udmurtia). April 9, 2004