Arson of a cabin with Uzbek workers in the Moscow region

On July 21, 2004, in the village of Sloboda in the Leninsky district of the Moscow region, local residents set fire to a change house in which Uzbek guest workers lived. Two men, Irgash Gadoev, born in 1969, and Nafedin Aliyev, born in 1972, burned down. Two more citizens of Uzbekistan received burns of varying severity.

Earlier, on July 2, 2004, the same people raped a 27-year-old woman who also lived in this change house. The next day, the workers went with a complaint to the owner of the site, but he advised to contact the police. The victim did not file a complaint. On July 5, 2004, money was extorted from the inhabitants of the change house. Insults shouted at the Uzbeks suggest a nationalist motive.

In hot pursuit, seven arsonists were detained. Almost all have recently returned from the army, one was a minor. However, only two suspects remained in the pre-trial detention center - Denis Ermoshin and Anton Kuznetsov. The rest were released to go home on bail. The extent of their participation in the investigation is still unknown.

As a result of the investigative actions, the details of the incident were revealed. On the night of July 21, Yermoshin and Kuznetsov broke down the door of a house at polling station No. 194 and began to demand $100 from Uzbek citizens who were there, threatening physical violence. Having been refused, the young people built torches and set fire to the house. As a result of the fire, almost the entire wooden structure burned down.

Press Service of the Prosecutor's Office of the Moscow Region. 2005. April 7th.

Sources

• Panchenko L. Good boys // Moscow's comsomolets. 2004. July 31