Yeshiva student beaten in Moscow region

In the Moscow region, three unidentified men attacked a yeshiva student and severely beat him. The victim is in the hospital.

On the night of December 1-2, 2014 in the Ramensky district Shlomo (Fyodor) Romanovsky, a student of the Torat Chaim yeshiva, was beaten in the Moscow region, citizen of Belarus, returning to the yeshiva from Moscow.

According to the Russian Jewish Congress, the attack happened 20 meters from the entrance to the yeshiva. The three attackers, without presenting any demands, began to beat Romanovsky. The blows were inflicted on the head, probably with brass knuckles. The attackers did not try to rob the victim. They spoke to each other not in Russian.

The victim was able to get to the yeshiva, from where he was taken to the Ramenskoye city hospital.

As part of a joint project of the SOVA Center and the Russian Jewish Congress .

Sources

• A yeshiva student, a citizen of Belarus, was severely beaten in the Moscow region // Interfax-West. 2014. December 3.