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Nationalists staged a pogrom in southern Moscow

October 14, 2013

In Western Biryulev, the Biryuza shopping center was defeated, clashes with riot police occurred, the crowd moved to the local vegetable base, cars with the numbers of Chechnya and Dagestan were hit in the yards - all this in response to the murder of the young man Yegor Shcherbakov, which happened in that area on October 10. Shcherbakov was stabbed in front of her friend, she claims that the killer was "non -Slavic appearance." The suspect was not detained. This has recently been enough for local residents, dissatisfied with the presence of migrants, to go out into the streets. The first so -called "people's gathering" took place on the evening of October 12, several dozen people brought flowers to the place of the death of Shcherbakov. They later came to the local police department, representatives of the Internal Affairs Directorate with the audience held a conversation. On October 13, people began to gather from 15.30. Prior to this, at 14.00, local residents met with the acting The head of the Internal Affairs Directorate in the Southern District Alexander Polovinko was discussed the possibility of creating folk squads to patrol streets. The police warned the participants in the "people's gathering" that any attempts to violate public order will be suppressed. These warnings were not stopped - after 17.00, there were reports that the Biryuza shopping center, which is known as a place where many migrants work, broke glasses. There was smoke in the building, there were also reports of looting. The detentions began, in response to the riot police, bottles and garbage tanks began to throw. Bucky was also used to create barricades, somewhere across the street they turned the truck turned over. After 18.00, it became known that the aggressively tuned crowd moved to the local vegetable depot-for some reason it was obvious to the member of the gathering that the killer was a migrant and that he was most likely hiding there. According to RIA Novosti, people managed to break through the gates of the vegetable base and partially rush it. OMON arrived there and began to push people away.

According to some reports, about 3,000 people took part in the riots. The defeats of trade compensation and the vegetable base did not limit themselves. Inverted cars, barricades from garbage containers, a crushed watermelon point. The riots lasted until about 23.00 Moscow time. The police detained 380 people, of which 70 were charged with administrative offenses. As a result of the riots, 6 police officers were injured.

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