Participants in the gathering in the Chechen town of Shali decided to evict the families of militants

Participants in the gathering in the Chechen city of Shali on January 19 held the relatives of the militants responsible for their actions and decided to evict them from the city in the future. This was reported by the Caucasian Knot publication, citing a source in the city administration.

The publication's interlocutor said that the gathering, which took place in the city House of Culture, was attended by representatives of the city and district leadership, ministries and departments, elders and clergy, as well as law enforcement officers and townspeople - a few hundred people in total.

According to him, representatives of the authorities spoke about the inadmissibility of extremist manifestations and stated that parents need to control the actions of young people in order to prevent them from being involved in illegal activities and the Islamic State terrorist organization banned in Russia.

As the Caucasian Knot notes, the decision to evict relatives of militants in the future was not supported by all participants in the gathering: some townspeople noted that the initiative to hold the gathering came from the authorities, who want to absolve themselves of responsibility for possible illegal actions against relatives of militants and explain this

A source in the city mayor's office clarified that among the alleged militants and their accomplices detained last week were several residents of Shali, which was the reason for holding the gathering. The publication's source in law enforcement agencies clarified that among those detained were seven residents of Shali, and all of them were young people under the age of 30. He claims that the relatives of some of them were previously members of illegal armed groups and were killed during special operations.

According to the interlocutor of the "Caucasian Knot", the detained residents of Shali were part of groups of militants from among the natives of the Kurchaloevsky and Shalinsky districts who planned to kill security forces, government officials, representatives of the clergy and members of their families, as well as attack units of federal forces.

After a special operation in the village of Tsotsi-Yurt on January 11, when four suspected militants and two National Guard soldiers were killed, residents of Chechnya reported mass arrests in eight settlements.