Massive clashes near Oktyabrskaya metro station

On September 14, 2006 in Moscow, a group of anti-fascists attacked the Tochka club, located in building 6 on Leninsky Prospekt, where at that time the “Get to the Point” festival was taking place, the program of which included performances by radical groups Haggies, Contraband, Ex. T.R.A., Oi!buzz. The attack involved about 100 people who pelted the club with football flares, bottles, stones and sticks. After this, a brawl broke out between anti-fascists and a group of concertgoers outside the club; several of them were injured as a result.

Then the same group went down to the Oktyabrskaya-Koltsevaya metro station and on the escalator started a mass fight with five young people shouting nationalist slogans. The police officer on duty at the metro station said that about 80 people “aged 18-19 years old took part in the fight. Some of them had their heads shaved.” Information about the number of anti-fascists varies. However, the main figure appearing in numerous testimonies is 40-50 people. While climbing from escalator to escalator, the fighters broke 7-8 lampshades.

As a result of the fight, strangers who were in the area of ​​the fight at the time were also injured - they were showered with shards of broken glass, and the teenagers also hit someone while jumping on the escalator.

Police detained five people, saying there were no serious incidents in the city. The police confiscated short cut wooden batons from those detained (most likely stool legs, which anti-fascists used as weapons of attack).

Comm. Of course, violent attacks are illegal, regardless of the slogan under which the attacks are launched. Neither considerations of revenge nor ideological motives are a justification. And such attacks against nationalists only strengthen their position in society.

Based on materials from Internet blogs

Sources

• There was a mass brawl at the Oktyabrskaya metro station in Moscow // Newsru.com. 2006. September 15.
• Anti-fascists attacked a club where a nationalist concert was taking place // Grani.ru. 2006. September 15. *