Muscovites talked about the conflict at the Cathedral Mosque: a crowd of aggressive Muslims dispersed riot police (video)

In Moscow, they started talking about a new exacerbation with the participation of visitors, about which the official authorities and the metropolitan police chose to remain silent. Last Friday, near the Cathedral Mosque on Mira Avenue, according to local residents, there were clashes of aggressive Muslims with riot police. A group of men of the eastern appearance chanted Allah Akbar, and at some point started a fight with police officers. Muslims refuted information about the attack, in response to accusing the police of unreasonable cruelty .

Although the grounds for hard measures at the Ministry of Internal Affairs may have been: it is possible that the police special operation in the area of ​​Mira Avenue was related to a recent attack on law enforcement officers near the mosque.

"On September 21, there was a police strengthening on the territory nearby to the mosque, and everything did not happen after Friday prayer, but during the day, starting in the morning," Ildar Alyautdinov, the main imam -Khatyb of the independent newspaper , said. “The riot police stood right opposite the metro and further, the streets were blocked,” said Bakhrom Khamroev, an employee of the Memorial human rights center, who arrived on September 21 on September 21 on Mira Prospekt. “I counted at least 100 riot police, and then I did not reach the end of the cordon, as I was detained near the metro.”

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About the increased concentration of police officers near the Olympic sports complex, next to which the main metropolitan mosque is located, local residents and employees of the organizations located nearby wrote a lot on Twitter. @PremierDecembar, working in the office nearby with the mosque, recorded: "The street was blocked in front of the Olympic and near the mosque, riot police in masks ... The abundance of people in body armor and weapons." @Dashuliapantera saw "many riot police officers, 2 auto -zats and" astronauts "in the metro itself. "Waiting for unrest after prayer?" - suggested in the microblog journalist Alexander Plyushchev. “They fear the unrest and increase in the number of Islamists, increased the guard. We are also afraid,” wrote the @PremierDecembre working next to the Olympic.

"The crowd of 50 people gathered from all corners, began to fight with riot police"

“At 14 o’clock the crowd began to gather to the mosque, went calmly. Somewhere at 14:45 their service ended, they began to diverge, but some of them gathered at the crossroads between the streets of Shchepkin and Durov. The crowd was huge, more than 100 people,” the employee told the bank located nearby. “The police on the high -profile communicated to disperse. Without any use,“ Comrades, we’ll sit down: Comrades, just sit down: Go to the metro. "And they shouted something in their own language, there were all kinds of exclamations."

This moment was filmed by one of the eyewitnesses on the street and on the same day is posted on the Internet. On the record, a crowd of strong men of the eastern appearance is visible, someone in white skullcaps or with a salary beard, crowding before a riot police cordon. The crowd chants "Allah Akbar!"

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“In the crowd, as we saw in the window, there were six people in Feski and scarves, who were the main provocateurs,” the eyewitness said. “They approached the riot police who stood there and tried to lift them up - they were right in their face, they didn’t give in to these provocations. They stood at the crossroads. After they could not be taken away, they began to remove them, they began to remove them. From there, cars - the car was adjusted by the armored. "

The Twitter user for @PremierDecembre, who observed a conflict from the window of her office, described what was happening as follows: "How terribly they are driven by riot police. Everything is yelling. Terribly. Even to look from the window."

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“They seemed to be already starting to leave, when suddenly someone in the crowd waved his hand, and they all ran away. They ran from all the corners, a crowd of 50 gathered, began to fight with a riot police. It was creepy. They were pulled out, they didn’t take anyone away,” the witness said. In her opinion, it was clear that the Muslims "provoked, stood there until the last, flew into riot police, and all this was shot from the crowd on the cells."

Another point of view: "People were just grabbed and dragged like animals"

Muslims give a different version of what happened. Islamic Internet publications from the ISLAMTV.ru website distributed a message stating that the police led to the incident.

“An unprecedented police operation took place at the cathedral mosque. The riot police and police detachments were pulled to the prayer, who checked the documents, dispersed street merchants. After the prayer was completed, the police detachment, using the loudspeakers, began to squeeze Muslims from nearby streets” - this is how the other version of the incident sounds.

The police actions were unreasonable, noted, in particular, Chechenews : law enforcement officers allegedly stopped for no reason to verify the documents of people "who followed the festive prayer."

“People simply grabbed and dragged like animals,” complained to the Wordyou.ru website, human rights activist Bakhrom Khamroev, who arrived on that day on Mira Avenue on the Call of one of the detainees. “Some did not even know the Russian language. They were frightened. The police were rude to them, swearing them. When one of the detainees shouted that they were arrested that they were“ black -blooded ”, police officers were calm. They answered - "yes."

According to the activist, when he demanded to explain the reason for the detention, he was allegedly stated that he was trying to provoke Muslims to capture the city hall. The detention of believers described the author of the material only as "rudeness on Friday."

The operation of the mosque could be an answer to the attack on the police

It is noteworthy that on the official website of the Moscow Ministry of Internal Affairs , there was no message about the skirmish near the mosque (but, for example, such interesting news as “a neighbor, outraged by the clutter of the stairwell, abducted the bicycle and took it to the trash”).

Explanations about the clash on Mira Avenue were given only by the Employee of the press service of the headquarters on the terms of anonymity: "On that day, ordinary preventive measures were carried out in this place to suppress illegal trade on the roadway and verification of documents, since there are many persons illegally located in the Russian Federation."

Such an operation was the reason for the events in the same place on September 14, when the crowd of about 50-100 men of the eastern appearance attacked riot police. Several police officers were injured.

“The riots began during the Friday prayer near the mosque on the Olympic Prospekt,” a law enforcement source told Life News on September 14. “it is known that a group of visitors from the southern regions attacked the riot police on a mosque on a mosque. The car was turned upside down, but the instigators were neutralized and detained.”

According to one version, this attack was the reason for the preventive raid on September 21.

In the province, Muslims burned the American flag

The intensity of passions is also supported by Muslims, reaching their own protests. So, on September 21, in a number of cities of Russia, performances were held against the film "Innocent Muslims" , which caused mass riots in the Islamic world, and in Russia it can soon be prohibited as extremist. In Nizhnevartovsk it came to the point that a group of believers publicly burned the American flag .

At the same time, in the district spiritual administration of Muslims, we disowned from participating in the action: "Rumors about this action go, we heard, but the management did not take part in its organization."

At the same time, in the Dagestan Kizlyar, a picket of protest was held under the black flag of Jihad by representatives of the Hizb Ut-Tahrir, which was banned in Russia, (Islamic Liberation Party). Recently, Hizb Ut-Tahrir has noticeably activated: its representatives, for example, participated in protest events in Kazan.

A month was left to Kurban-Bayram

Another test for tolerance in Moscow will be the Muslim holiday of Kurban-Bayram, which this year falls on October 26. The main celebrations traditionally occur precisely on Mira Avenue, where the Cathedral Mosque is located. In past years, however, on a holiday there always did without violence, although many Muscovites expressed displeasure of the transport collapse in the area and a large accumulation of prayers spreading rugs right on the streets.

In the fall of 2011, however, a scandal almost occurred when the police received information about the intention of a group of citizens to make a solemn sacrifice. As a result of the measures taken, the celebration in the capital took place without serious incidents .

Recently, the Moscow City Hall began to take active measures to unload the area around the Cathedral Mosque. So, this summer, for Uraza-Bayram, additional sites for prayers were opened in Sokolniki, Luzhniki and Butovo. In general, this year the celebration of Uraza Bayram passed calmly.

Kurban-Bayram, the capital's authorities want to note on a grand scale. So, on the occasion of the holiday at the State Kremlin Palace, the concert "Kurban-Bayram with friends with friends" will be held, Interfax reports.