The instigators of the pogroms in the center of Moscow are released

All detained participants in the riots on Manezhnaya Square in Moscow are released. This was announced by ITAR-TASS a source in the capital's Central Internal Affairs Directorate.

“After drawing up the protocols, all the detainees were released from the police department, but some of them will return on Monday to continue the trial,” the agency’s interlocutor said, noting that a number of materials were sent to the court for consideration.

Earlier, a source in law enforcement agencies told ITARS that among the 65 detainees there are instigators of riots in Manezhnaya Square.

According to the official representative of the capital's Central Internal Affairs Directorate of Viktor Biryukov, on Saturday afternoon, about 5 thousand young people representing various communities came to Manezhnaya Square: from football fans to supporters of nationalist organizations.

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The audience began to chant the slogans: "Russia for Russians" and others, as well as lit firecrackers and fires. Later, young people began to move towards the Manege exhibition hall and tried to break through the cordon. "The promoters used improvised means, in particular, the elements of the New Year tree installed on Manezhnaya Square, and threw them towards the police," Biryukov said.

The fact that the instigators of an unauthorized action on the Manezhnaya Square of Moscow were detained, ITAR-TASS reported a source in the capital's law enforcement agencies.

"The instigators of an unauthorized action on Manezhnaya Square, which led to the riots, are detained, a check is being conducted," the agency’s interlocutor said on Saturday evening, but he did not specify the number of detainees or their names.

Also, according to the source, the majority of detained clash participants have been released at present. In turn, the official representatives of the Moscow Central Internal Affairs Directorate refused to comment.

Among the victims as a result of riots on Manezhnaya Square there are people who are in serious condition. This was reported to ITAR-TASS the night before at the Ministry of Health and Social Development of the Russian Federation.

"Among the victims there are those who are currently in serious condition," the department said. The ministry emphasized that all injured participants in the conflict were hospitalized in medical institutions of the city of Moscow. In total, more than 20 people suffered.

The ministry also clarified that the victims are in the clinics of subordination of the Moscow Department.

At the same time, the Interfax source in medical circles said that more than 30 people were injured as a result of riots.

Meanwhile, the Blogosphere is subject to information that there is a dead in the riots on Manezhnaya Square. The photographer of Novaya Gazeta Vadim Sidorov states that the person whom he photographed in the square was given signs of life.

However, the official representative of the Moscow Central Internal Affairs Directorate Viktor Biryukov denied the reports that appeared in the media about the death of one of the participants in the street campaign with the participation of football fans on Saturday in the center of Moscow.

"Apparently, someone is trying to give out what he wants for the real one," Biryukov said. The source of Interfax in medical circles also does not confirm the message that a man delivered from Manezhnaya Square died in the hospital.

In the course of restoring order on Manezhnaya Square, police officers never used a service weapon. This was stated today by the head of the Main Directorate of Moscow, Vladimir Kolokoltsev.

Answering the questions of journalists, he said: "In the course of restoring order on Manezhnaya Square, police officers and riot police never used a table weapon, despite the danger in some cases, a danger to their lives."

The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Rashid Nurgaliev this morning additionally reported to President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev about the results of the action of law enforcement agencies to stop yesterday's unauthorized shares of representatives of radical organizations of fans and St. Petersburg, the Kremlin press service said.

The President approved the actions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and instructed the minister and further take all the necessary measures to protect public order. In this regard, Medvedev emphasized the inadmissibility of violations of the current legislation in connection with the conduct of mass events. The law enforcement agencies, the President believes, have the right to apply during such situations the entire set of funds established by law.

Opposition: The police were not ready to prevent pogroms

Representatives of the political opposition consider the main cause of the mass riots in Manezhnaya Square in the capital the poor work of the authorities to combat extremist groups, as well as the disclosure of serious criminal offenses causing a large public resonance.

“It is clear that football fans would not have reached the square if the murder of their comrade would be disclosed in“ hot pursuit ”and the public would know that the suspects in this crime were detained and would appear before the trial,” Yabloko leader, Sergei Mitrokhin, told Interfax.

At the same time, he noted that "it is no longer a secret that spontaneously acting fans use representatives of extremist groups, including nationalist, Xenophobsky, to achieve their goals."

This, the leader of Yabloko believes, is another evidence that law enforcement agencies, to put it mildly, are not at the height and by this indicator.

The co -chair of the right -hand party Leonid Gozman, in turn, called the police unprofessional actions that pushed the crowd of football fans to the metro stations. “It was easy for a non -professional to foresee that the heated fans would begin to renew at the nearby metro stations, where, in fact, they were brutally beaten by the innocent faces of non -Slavic appearance,” Gozman said.

He also expressed a misunderstanding about why law enforcement agencies were not ready to foresee and stop the mass performances of fans in the center of the capital. “It was not at all difficult to foresee that on the day of the funeral of their comrade, thousands of fans would demand to find and punish his killers. Find their police earlier, work“ in hot pursuit ”, and today there would be no these mass atrocities and beatings of people,” Gozman emphasized. For his part, one of the leaders of the democratic coalition "for Russia without arbitrariness and corruption" Vladimir Ryzhkov expressed regret that in our country, it seems that only in such ways it is possible to force law enforcement authorities to work effectively.

"Only at the height of today's many thousands of atrocities, representatives of the authorities reported that they were detained by the third alleged killer Yegor Sviridov. It turns out that only in this way can representatives of the authorities work to disclose loud crimes," Ryzhkov said.

He expressed regret that the brutal murder of Yegor Sviridov is still not disclosed. “Do you really need to arrange such atrocities, and even densely painted by nationalism in order to achieve disclosure of this criminal offense?” The politician asked a question.

She also considers it extremely dangerous for the country literally galloping the growth of nationalist sentiments. "Football fans have long become a nutrient medium in which the deadly bacilli of fascism and xenophobia is rapidly developing, planted by extremist underground groups with which law enforcement agencies, it seems, still cannot cope," Ryzhkov emphasized.