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Paratroopers at the market in Lipetsk
On August 2, 2009, in Lipetsk, paratroopers at the Central Market broke into a truck with license plates from Dagestan and took watermelons and melons from there.
On the day of the Airborne Forces, paratroopers (about 14 people) went to the Central Market "to conduct a traditional ceremony - the seizure of watermelons from merchants from the Caucasus, followed by beating ... both watermelons and Caucasians . " However, having learned from the experience of previous years, in the morning all the trucks with watermelons were selling watermelons at the Central Market turned out to be closed, and people of "non-Slavic appearance" disappeared.
“We don’t offend anyone on this day. And taking watermelon from Caucasians is our “landing” custom ,” said former paratrooper Vadim Smirnov.
The paratroopers "inspected" all the trucks and found one, with Dagestan numbers, in the rear doors of which small hatches-windows were embedded. The men broke the windows and took as many watermelons and melons as they could carry.
Two police officers were at the scene - a senior lieutenant and a major, district police officers of the Lipetsk Main Internal Affairs Directorate, attached to patrols of the PPS for reinforcement. Seeing what was happening, the police asked the robbers to leave the market. "The paratroopers told us that the owners of the truck themselves allowed them to take watermelons. - No one will punish the paratroopers for this, since there were no statements from the owners of the watermelons," law enforcement officers said. The sellers who worked on the truck denied the statement about the voluntary issuance of goods.
After a while, another group of paratroopers walked around the entire market and tried to take watermelons and melons from several sellers of "Slavic appearance". Police officers who did not intervene in the episode with the Dagestan truck appeared at the scene and drove the men out of the market.
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