The police tore off the rock concert of supporters of the revival of the state of Ingria within the boundaries of the Leningrad region

Petersburg police interrupted the concert "Ingria-Fest", held in a club on Ligovsky Prospekt. The Fontanka portal reports that the law enforcement officers who arrived at the place laid the participants of the festival "Faces to the Paul", checked the documents from them, and some tested on drugs.

The regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs said to reporters that law enforcement officers came to the club at the requests of "vigilant local residents" who complained of the youth who left the club, who violated public order and interfered with cars on the roadway. The police emphasized that there were no detentions.

The organizers of the concert confirmed Fontanka that law enforcement officers in masked law enforcement officers were visited in the hall. “Why did they come, we don’t know. We hope that the concert will be able to continue,” said the interlocutor of the portal.

Interfax, citing the local police press service, reports that law enforcement officers who arrived at the club have already decided to conduct a “preventive audit in the place in order to identify possible offenses or crimes, including drug trafficking”.

In addition, an informed source of the agency said that among the visitors of the club, "can be people known to law enforcement officers as distributors of extremist views."

"Fontanka" clarifies that one of the organizers of the concert "Ingermanlanders" is the radical nationalist Nikolai MeniChakov. The portal also recalls that last week the site of the Free Ingria movement was blocked at the request of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation. The supervisory department explained this by the fact that this resource called visitors to the riots, the implementation of extremist activities, as well as to participate in measures conducted in violation of the established order.

Ingria is a historical territory around St. Petersburg that does not have strict borders, which is almost completely placed inside the current Leningrad region. During the civil war for a year and a half (from July 1919 to December 1920), part of this territory had sovereignty under the self-name of North Ingria. This "state" included the northern part of the current Vsevolozhsk district of the Leningrad region.

The date of declaration of Ingria’s independence (July 9, 1919) is a memorable date for supporters of this idea. "98 years ago, the flame of freedom, which is burning now in Ingria. We, regionalists with the noble coast, believe that soon the freedom of our Motherland will become real," the Ingermanlanders' public page said.

The founder of this public Dmitry Vitushkin, in an interview with Medusa , emphasized that various groups and movements of Ingria supporters have nothing to do with extremism or separatism. “The maximum that they want is the union of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region into a single subject of the Federation with the presentation of the republican status and returning the historical name of Ingria to the region,” Vitushkin said.

In May 2016, a criminal case was instituted in St. Petersburg for extremism against 36-year-old Artem Chebotarev, who was the administrator of the Free Ingria group in VKontakte. During the search, not only the flags of Ingermanlandia were seized from him, but also the images of Nazi symbols.