Citizens of India and Kenya beaten in Voronezh

On the evening of February 17, 2008, in a fixed-route taxi near the Dinamo Sports Palace stop, two (according to other sources, three) neo-Nazis attacked foreign passengers - three citizens of India and a citizen of Kenya, beat them and disappeared.

The incident occurred when the injured foreign students of the Voronezh State Medical Academy were returning home from a store. Initially, it was reported that only Indian citizens Augustine Robin, born in 1985, a 5th year student at VSMA, and first-year students Surendran Vijayakumari Sunej, born in 1987, were injured. and Panmei Pointanmei, born in 1985 Later it turned out that a Kenyan citizen was also injured. Two victims were forced to seek medical attention.

First, the case was initiated under paragraph "a" of part 2 of article 116 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (beating, committed out of hooligan motives). However, later it was reclassified and the hate motive appeared in the accusation.

Sources

• The prosecutor's office of the Central District of Voronezh sent to court two criminal cases on the facts of beating foreign citizens motivated by national and racial hatred // Official website of the Prosecutor's Office of the Voronezh Region. 2009. July 8.
• Three Indian students beaten up in Voronezh // ANN. 2008. February 18.