Suspects of committing a pogrom at a cemetery in Zheleznovodsk were detained

"Komsomolskaya Pravda - North Caucasus" reports on the arrest on December 15 of those suspected of committing a pogrom at a cemetery in Zheleznovodsk. "They turned out to be," writes the newspaper, "three teenagers from Pyatigorsk, one of whom is 18 (he already has a criminal record for robbery), the other two are 17 years old, both of whom study at college."

"The teenagers have already given confessions. According to them, that day they were returning drunk from a nightclub. And as it turned out, they decided to act like a hooligan," Elena Grishchenko, senior inspector for media relations at the Internal Affairs Directorate at Kavminvody, told a Komsomolskaya Pravda correspondent.

Sources

• Chakhirov K. Zheleznovodsk vandals were detained // Komsomolskaya Pravda - North Caucasus. 2006. December 19.