Nationalist arson in Orenburg

On the night of April 12, 2006, the Tajikistan cafe burned down on Lipovaya Street in Orenburg. Building with an area of ​​200 sq.m. burned completely, despite the efforts of 6 fire crews trying to extinguish the fire.

A 16-year-old teenager, the son of one of the laborers, died in the fire. His 41-year-old father received serious burns and was hospitalized in a city hospital.

From the very beginning, the cause of the fire was called arson, but only a year and a half later, at the end of July 2007,it became known that skinheads might be involved in organizing the arson. The leader of one of the city’s groups, detained on suspicion of murdering an Uzbek worker in 2007, admitted that he was involved in this devouring.

Sources

• The Tajikistan cafe was burning on Lipovaya Street // Oren.Ru. 2006. April 13.
• The leader of the Orenburg skinheads confessed to the death of a Tajik // Gazeta.Ru. 2007. August 1.