Japanese citizen beaten in Moscow

On October 20 or 21, 2008, in Moscow, at 32 Leninsky Prospekt, 45-year-old Japanese citizen Murato Yasuhiro was attacked in an underground passage.

The police received a report that a group of young people were beating a man in the passage. The attackers fled the crime scene. The foreigner was hospitalized with head injuries.

An attack motivated by national hatred is considered as one of the preliminary versions of the crime.

Sources

• A Japanese citizen was beaten in Moscow // Rosbalt.Ru. 2008. October 21.