On Saturday, in the center of Moscow on Tverskaya Street, opposite the city hall building, a black French citizen, Pierre Ern, was beaten, Interfax reports .

As the capital's law enforcement agencies clarified, the incident occurred around 16:30. The foreigner was attacked by young people, presumably skinheads, who were waiting for participants in a banned gay pride parade.

Without waiting for activists from among sexual minorities, aggressive teenagers attacked a Frenchman passing by and began to beat him. “And one of the hooligans filmed all this on a mobile phone camera,” the police told the ITAR-TASS agency .

Ern received several severe blows to the head and received outpatient medical care. On suspicion of committing an offense, the police detained seven people, who, along with the Frenchman, were taken to the 83rd police station.

Most likely, a criminal case will be initiated against the detainees under the article “hooliganism.” “It is unlikely that this incident will be classified as an administrative offense,” ITAR-TASS quotes a law enforcement representative.

Let us remind you that during unauthorized actions of representatives of sexual minorities in Moscow, about 120 people were detained, both organizers of the gay pride parade and opponents of the event. In particular, Bundestag deputy Volker Beck and Russian Newsweek correspondent Aidar Buribaev were taken to the police from the Moscow City Hall building. In addition, during the riots, RTVi correspondent Roman Super was beaten.

Instead of participants in the gay pride parade on Tverskaya, a black Frenchman was beaten