Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to the Southern Federal District: “First of all, provocateurs and those who incite ethnic hatred will be punished”

On June 5, 2007, Dmitry Kozak, presidential plenipotentiary in the Southern Federal District, warned of criminal liability for those who are trying to foment a conflict in connection with the events in Stavropol.

"I want to warn all those who are trying to warm their hands on this, especially volunteers from other regions, including from Moscow: the law enforcement system will pursue such people to the fullest extent of the law," he said .

"First of all, provocateurs and those who incite ethnic hatred will be punished: the law prohibits such actions and provides for criminal liability for this ," the plenipotentiary said.

D. Kozak stressed that those who are trying to link the events of May 24 and the murder of two students on June 3 "call for pogroms, for interethnic confrontation . "

According to him, people living in the Stavropol Territory, public organizations, diasporas understand the danger of moving along the path of interethnic confrontation. The situation in the Stavropol Territory is tense, but "the source of tension is not the people who live in the Stavropol Territory, but false politicians from the outside ," D. Kozak noted.

He said that law enforcement agencies are doing everything possible to ensure order and detain criminals.

Probably, the words of D. Kozak refer to the leader of the RONS Igor Artemov, who spoke at the rally on June 3, as well as to the DPNI coordinator Alexander Belov and the head of DPNI-TV Boris Smirnov, who were detained on June 5 on the way to the "descent".

Sources

• Dmitry Kozak: Provocateurs in Stavropol will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law // News. North Caucasus. 2007. June 5.
• Dmitry Kozak: in Stavropol, extremists call for pogroms, for interethnic confrontation // Radio Mayak. 2007. June 5.
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