Students from Tajikistan are beaten in Moscow

The program is conducted by Arslan Saidov. Radio Liberty correspondents in Moscow Viktor Nechez and Anna Arakelova take part.

Arslan Saidov: In Moscow, there was an attack on students from Tajikistan who are studying at the State University of Management. According to the victims, people who burst into a student dormitory last night introduced themselves as law enforcement officers. The police have a different version. And about this my colleague Viktor Nechez.

Victor Nechez: So, last night, five Tajik students were beaten in the hostel of the State University of Management on Ryazan Prospekt. The President of the Education Fund Sergey Komkov claims that the policemen started a fight, and one of the attackers was allegedly identified. Here's what Sergei Komkov said to the Mayak radio ...

Sergei Komkov: Allegedly, one of the students did not very friendly reacted to one of the policemen. The police, according to the testimony of the Student children, were pretty drunk, they were without shape, but in the uniform of police pants, and presented the police guard and the leadership of the hostel. They just broke out where Tajik guys live, and began to thresh in a row. At the same time, they beat brutally. In the hands of one of the police officers was a cylinder key. All the money, everything that was available from them was seized, selected mobile phones. Five guys were beaten to a very serious condition. They called an ambulance, they were sent to the hospital. Three - in the 68th hospital, one in the 36th hospital, one in the 1st city hospital.

Victor Nechez: according to Sergei Komkov, on the eve of one of the police officers, a household conflict arose with a group of visiting students from Dagestan or, possibly, Ingush, and the next day, according to Sergei Komkov, the same policeman in the company of 4-5 of his friends appeared at the hostel and decided to take revenge. Naturally, the official version of the police is somewhat different. Here's what Anna Arakelova press secretary of the Moscow prosecutor’s office Sergei Marchenko said in an interview with my colleague ...

Sergey Marchenko: Yesterday, at about 20 o’clock in one of the rooms of the hostel of the State University of Management, located in house 99 on Ryazan Prospekt, a man knocked. He was discovered by a university student, a citizen of Tajikistan. The one who came to demonstrate an official certificate and introduced himself as an employee of the police, while the certificate of an unidentified model. After about six people broke into the room and a balcony key, belts and legs began to beat six university students, immigrants from Tajikistan in the room. In the process of beating, one of the victims dropped his cell phone, and the attacker, grabbing him, together with the rest of the accomplices of the crime from the scene of the incident. Currently, on this fact, the prosecutor's office of the Southeast Administrative District of the city of Moscow has been instituted and investigated under the articles-the 162nd “robbery” and the 213rd “hooliganism” of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. The prosecutor of the city investigation of the criminal case was taken into account. The prosecutor of the southeast was given instructions for conducting investigative actions and operational-search measures as soon as possible in order to establish the persons who committed the crime, their detention and prosecute criminal liability.

Anna Arakelova: Is it known whether there are hospitalized?

Sergey Marchenko: At present, the hospital is left alone.

Viktor Nechez: At the same time, the administration of the hostel itself about what happened has the most vague ideas, but, according to the head of the hostel of Raisa Grishaeva, the hostel’s check of the hostel this morning established that all the students living in it were on the spot, and no one was hospitalized.

Raisa Grishaeva: All in the hostel. There is no one in hospitals. The only thing there are guys who suffered, but they are here in the hostel. They do not need hospitalization. I can’t say anything, because I was not here at that time, and that was at eight o’clock in the evening. I don’t know, the police were, not the police, I can’t say anything yet.