“White carriage” promotion on the Moscow train?

On January 19, 2016, in Moscow, on a train traveling from the Kievsky railway station to the Aprelevka station, a native of Azerbaijan was beaten.

According to one of the versions, which was spread by the head of the Moscow Kumyk organization Ramazan Alapaut, in the Solntsevo or Peredelkino area, a group of young people of about 10 people, whose faces were covered with medical masks, got on the train, some were holding bats in their hands, others had them sticking out of their backpacks. Having passed into the next carriage, the young people attacked a passenger who appeared to be from the Caucasus. After beating him with bats, the young people ran out of the train after spraying a gas canister in the carriage.

Passengers tried to call the police or contact the driver using the call button, but it turned out to be inoperative. The driver called an ambulance after one of the eyewitnesses reached the lead car and contacted him directly.

If this description of events is correct, then we can assume that the action was timed to coincide with the anti-fascist march , which traditionally takes place on January 19 in Moscow and other cities in memory of the lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova killed on January 19, 2009.

Another version of events emerged after the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper published an interview with a man who introduced himself as the victim of the attack, namely a 24-year-old Azerbaijani citizen named Elvin. According to him, only one or two young people had masks, while the rest hid their faces under scarves and clothes.

According to him, the incident began when he saw a group of teenagers running away from the conductor and joined them, since he was also traveling without a ticket. At the door of the vestibule, he heard a racist insult from one of them, hit him for it, and in response, eight people attacked him.

According to the official report of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Transport, released later, the participants in the incident got off the train at Peredelkino station. The victim was provided with medical assistance in Aprelevka; he did not file a statement with the police.

Unfortunately, it is not yet possible to say which version of events is correct. The first is supported by data provided by RBC citing a source in law enforcement agencies. It is reported that this is not the third action of nationalists on this direction of the railway that has been carried out recently. Details have not yet been disclosed.

Sources

• A group of teenagers with bats attacked passengers on an electric train in Moscow // RIA Novosti. 2016. January 20.
• Victim of masked teenagers from the train: “8 people beat me” // Moskovsky Komsomolets. 2016. January 20.
• A nationalist trace was found in a fight on a train near Moscow // RBC. 2016. January 20.