In the village of Plekhanovo, the Tula region, where a rebellion began on March 16 due to problems with gas supply, four people were detained. The report on the website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs says that they were taken to the district police department and protocols on disobedience to the legal requirements of police officers (Article 19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) were drawn up on them.
In the video of the Tula 1 channel, you can see that people are delayed, rolled to the ground and beat with batons of a group of reliably equipped riot police, while these actions take place in response to cries of protest. No aggressive actions on the part of residents are visible.
At the same time, a day earlier it was reported that a day earlier, on March 16, unrest began in the village in which representatives of gypsy families participated: suspecting that their houses wanted to turn off the gas supply network (earlier it was decided to demolish gypsy houses in the village), people rushed with sticks and stones in the workers and journalists and tried to break into the buildings of the local administration and the buildings of the local administration. police.
The conflict worsened after on March 15, according to local media, representatives of gypsy families tried to unurely join the gas pipeline, but water fell into the system, which was why the whole village was left without gas. The next day, repair work began, but not in the place where the accident occurred, but where the gas network approaches the village.
On March 17, about 500 police officers and riot police arrived in the village, the administration building was numb.