Pogrom of a cafe in Yekaterinburg

June 18, 2011 in Yekaterinburg on Opalikhinskaya street, in the microdistrict Zarechny teenagers (from 15 to 20 people), armed with baseball bats, with sticks and an ax, pogrom of the Kapriz cafe, owned by the citizens of Uzbekistan.

Two employees of the institution ("non-Slavic appearance") were injured, one of them taken away in an ambulance. According to other reports, there were three victims. The attackers smashed the windows of refrigerators and broke counter.

According to one of the eyewitnesses, the attackers were Nazi skinheads "judging by shaved heads.

Ten police cars arrived at the scene, but  failed to arrest anyone. The teenagers fled direction of Cherepanova street.

According to one version, the cause of the pogrom could be the there was a fight here the day before, during which a local resident was injured. According to another version, the attack is an echo of the events of June 14 in a cafe "Halva", located on the same street, when a group of men with bats attacked the cafe, and 17 people were injured, including 7 women.

In November 2011, it became known that the conflict had a domestic character. It is reported that on the morning of July 18, even before the opening of the cafe, two drunken young men came to it and demanded to sell them beer. When the staff refused, one of the drunks hit the cafe chef in the face. In response to this, the guard of the establishment broke one of the attackers' jaw. After that, the young people retreated, and in the evening they returned with a company of acquaintances and smashed the establishment.

Sources

• Valiev A. In Yekaterinburg, an Uzbek cafe was smashed // Yekaterinburg-Today. 2011. June 19.
• The case of the pogrom in the Yekaterinburg cafe "Caprice" was submitted to the court // UralInformBuro. 2011. November 18.