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On Monday evening, representatives of left-wing youth movements were beaten in Moscow. The attackers acted with baseball bats and traumatic pistols. Four people ended up in the hospital, several received injuries of various ...

On Monday evening, representatives of left-wing youth movements were beaten in Moscow. The attackers acted with baseball bats and traumatic pistols. Four people ended up in the hospital, several received injuries of varying severity.

The police managed to detain the attackers, but after a few hours they were all released.

The beating of left-wing activists caused a wide resonance. Before that, as a rule, only the National Bolsheviks were beaten, but on Monday, representatives of the “legal” opposition were attacked for the first time. It seems that now strong fists can become not the last argument in political battles. And while the media are talking about the customers of the massacre and the strange behavior of the police, youth leaders promise to create self-defense units (in case of repetition of “extraordinary” situations), and their older comrades demand a parliamentary investigation.

The main question, of course: who were the attackers? Representatives of left-wing youth movements blame the pro-Kremlin Nashi movement, whose leaders they believe ordered the fight. True, in support of their version, they cite only analogies from the past and eyewitness accounts who allegedly noticed a T-shirt with the corresponding symbols on one of the attackers.

But, firstly, it is known that when going “on business”, criminals do not take their passports with them. And secondly, how many of these T-shirts have been reissued ... Therefore, the Nashi commissars feel confident when they angrily reject all accusations and put forward the assumption that the fight is a consequence of internal squabbles in the camp of the left.

The police at first tried to reduce everything to ethnic contradictions, then they showed unanimity with Nashi, and in the end they completely closed themselves from comments, as in principle the prosecutor's office, which in itself arouses suspicion: usually any successful arrest in a high-profile case is promoted with obsessive thoroughness .

It is known that some of the people who attacked the "red youth" in masks and with bats arrived on a PAZ bus rented in Korolev, near Moscow. It belongs to the private enterprise "Autotravel" and usually operates flights on the route 576 Korolev-VVC (Moscow).

It is this geographical reference to the Yaroslavl direction of the Moscow region that provides the key to answering the main question. As we managed to find out, the attackers were really football fans (of different colors - both red-blue and red-white), the backbone of which were fighters from the so-called Yaroslavka group that supports CSKA (just over 20 people). But they did not participate in the fight at all out of sporting interest and not for ideological reasons (many did not really know who they were going to beat). The budget of the "share" was approximately 20 thousand dollars. The money was spent on renting a bus, buying beats, and fees to the “fighters” (each received an average of $500; for comparison: the organizers of the pogrom in Tsaritsyn paid the “fighters” $250-800, depending on the rank in the group).

It was the “Yaroslavl” that the traffic police officers tied up in the Lefortovo tunnel. About 15 minutes after the brilliantly completed operation "Interception", a certain lieutenant colonel arrived at the blocked bus in an unmarked car and began to drive away the TV people (he looked like a man who had fallen on official troubles). 25 detainees were taken to the Danilovsky police station, their names were transcribed and, without even taking written explanations, they were released. The policemen said that "there was a call from above."

In general, it turned out exactly as the employers promised their “fighters” at the briefing and as the “fighters” themselves promised the policemen who detained them: the worst thing to fear is a fine, but its amount is “included in the price”. With one, however, condition: to beat not by mortal combat, in order to do without serious injuries.

If the “Yaroslavl” people were nevertheless tied up (perhaps simply because the concepts of duty and professionalism are not yet atrophied among all police officers; so the “overlay” came out), then the rest of the participants in the attack, dispersed around the district, were not particularly looked for. So they then quite calmly celebrated the “successful hunt” in the fresh air.

Among these others, our sources include fighters from the Spartak group "Gladiators" (Gladiators), whose former leaders are considered to be Roman Verbitsky and Vasya-Killer, who have already been noted at the last pogrom near the NBP bunker. As well as fighters from the CSKA group “Mad Stallions” (Gallant steeds) under the leadership of a certain Mitryushin, also its former leader.

Judging by some data, there were neo-Nazis as well. In the beating of the Komsomol members, according to our sources, several people from the United Brigades-88 group could also participate. This is one of the largest skinhead groups in Moscow. Founded in 1998. It has about 60 people. The backbone is made up of adults, former criminals, cruel people even by the standards of skinheads. The group took part in all notable recent extremist actions, including the pogrom at the Tsaritsyno market on October 30, 2001 and on Manezhnaya Square

June 9, 2002

It is known that "OB-88" are not directly related to any of the fan associations, but some members of the group take part in their "events", the area of ​​​​responsibility is the Yaroslavl direction. The group appears in police reports as broken up, but, apparently, it just went underground.

So the fighters were scraped in the bottom of the barrel, and very quickly. Who? Our sources suggest that they were the former leaders of the army fan group "Mad Stallions" (Gallant steeds).

Why ex? Because the rest of the fan "society" publicly does not recognize either Verbitsky, or Killer, or Mitryushin, who are really seen in contacts with Nashi, as their own.

Even before the formation of the Nashi movement in February 2005, there was an idea that it would be nice to attract football fans for the “re-education”. For some (perhaps not even ideological at all) reasons, the leaders of these two small but lively groups turned out to be the closest.

PS The question of whether to open a criminal case or limit it to “administrative work” is now being decided by the Moscow City Prosecutor's Office. At the Danilovsky police department, visitors are slowed down already at the entrance, sending them indiscriminately to the press service, and prosecutors answer the same on the phone. The press services took a break. Such secrecy is probably due to the fact that law enforcement agencies simply do not know what to do in this situation.