Mass brawl in Stavropol

Late in the evening on May 24, 2007, in the Industrial District of Stavropol, near the Midas gaming club on Yunosti Avenue, a massive wall-to-wall fight took place between natives of Chechnya and local residents, in which, according to various sources, from 100 to 400 people took part. The parties used rebar scraps, metal pipes and paving slabs. According to eyewitnesses, representatives of the "Caucasian" side during the clash shouted "Allah Akbar!" . On the video posted a few days later on the Internet, cries of "Glory to Rus'!" are also clearly audible. Unfortunately, the quality of the video does not allow us to judge the scale of the fight.

According to unofficial information, the reason for the conflict was a quarrel between teenagers (according to other sources - students) in the computer club M 16 on May 22. According to Askhabal Alibekov, head of the Brotherly Union of the Peoples of the Caucasus organization, on May 23, skinheads beat up two Chechen students. - One of them, 18-year-old Movlid Bogatyrev, a student of the Stavropol branch of the Moscow University of Economics, was taken barely alive to the hospital with head injuries. The participants in the conflict, in order to sort out the relationship, "scored the arrow" on the evening of May 24 at the Midas club. According to eyewitnesses, the fight began as a one-on-one showdown and became massive after the friends of one of the participants "came to the aid" of "their own" by using a piece of metal pipe. Then each of the parties "pulled up" reinforcements with calls from mobile phones.

By 10 p.m., when the first signal was received by the police, several hundred people had already participated in the clash. The OMON officers arrived to stop the clash and started firing into the air. The fight was stopped only by 24:00, when almost all employees of the city's Internal Affairs Directorate were pulled into the area.

Gilani Ataev, a 2nd year student of the Stavropol Humanitarian University, a native of Chechnya, died during the clash. He died from a blow to the head with a blunt object. Another student from Chechnya, Zaurbek Akhmatov, was shot in the leg. Also, as a result of the fight, according to various sources, from 10 to 20 people were hospitalized, some of them with injuries, some in a state of drug intoxication. The exact number of victims has not yet been established.

The next day on the square. Lenin, an unsanctioned rally was held, which brought together about 40 people, natives of the Caucasus, demanding the punishment of those responsible. Those who gathered demanded to rein in the skinheads , otherwise promising "mass riots!" in the Stavropol Territory. Special forces were pulled to the square, and the doors to administrative institutions were hastily locked. Officials of various ranks came out to the protesters in turn, trying to persuade them to leave the square. They left after after they were promised to create joint self-defense units to protect the inhabitants of the city.

Immediately after this rally, the city security council issued a statement in which it called the mass brawl in the North-Western region an "uncommon event", condemned the silence of law enforcement agencies, "not ready to provide at least a short reliable information about what happened to either the press or the city administration ", and called on all the townspeople to prudence and tolerance.

On May 25, on the fact of the fight and death of G. Ataev, the prosecutor's office of the Stavropol Territory initiated a criminal case under Part 4 of Art. 111 (intentional infliction of grievous bodily harm, negligently resulting in the death of the victim) and Part 2 of Art. 213 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. (hooliganism). On May 26, 2007, two participants in the clash were detained on suspicion of committing crimes, and several more participants in the fight were detained under administrative procedure.

On May 30, by decision of the Industrial District Court of Stavropol, two suspects of participating in a fight were taken into custody. The court granted the petition of the prosecutor's office of the Stavropol Territory. Two residents of Stavropol are charged under Part 2 of Art. 213 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("hooliganism") and part 4 of Art. 111 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("intentional infliction of grievous bodily harm, negligently resulting in the death of the victim").

Allenova A. "It will be Kondopoga multiplied a hundred times" // Kommersant. 2007. June 4th.

Larintseva A., Muradov M., Sokovnin A. Mass clashes on the Stavropol soil // Kommersant. 2007. May 26.

Sources

• A criminal case was initiated on the fact of the murder in a fight of a student (Stavropol) // IA Regnum. 2007. May 28.
• Local media: details about the mass brawl in Stavropol // Caucasian knot. 2007. May 26.
• Suspects of participating in a mass brawl were taken into custody by a court decision (Stavropol) // IA Regnum. 2007. May 31.
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