Attack in the Nizhny Novgorod region

On September 23, 2008, in the city of Dzerzhinsk (Nizhny Novgorod Region), two young men attacked a local resident of "non-Slavic appearance."

The attackers were detained.

In the course of the investigation, involvement in a crime committed by them two days earlier as part of a group of persons against a citizen of Tajikistan , the case of whose murder was brought to court in July 2009, was proved.

Sources

• Investigative bodies of the Investigative Committee for the Nizhny Novgorod region completed the investigation of a criminal case on charges of a group of young people in the murder of a citizen of the Republic of Tajikistan, committed on the basis of ethnic hatred // Official site of the SU UPC RF for the Nizhny Novgorod region. 2009. July 8.