In Simferopol, police detained participants of the rally in memory of the deportation of the Crimean Tatars

In Simferopol, the police detained participants in the “Light a Fire in Your Heart” action in memory of the deportation of Crimean Tatars. This is reported by the portal "KrymSOS".

More than 10 people have been arrested, according to the newspaper. Journalist Anton Naumlyuk writes on Facebook that there are several dozen detainees. According to him, they were taken to different police departments, including the "Central" - there are five people, two of them minors. The Crimean Solidarity Facebook page says that five people, including one minor, are in the Zheleznodorozhny police department. From the "Central" one person was released.

The detainees are forced to fingerprint, Naumlyuk reports.

The action "Light a fire in your heart" is traditionally held in Crimea on the eve of the anniversary of the deportation of the Crimean Tatars in 1944. People light candles laid out in the shape of the coat of arms of the Crimean Tatars.

UPD 15:40 A 19-year-old protester is accused of disobeying the demand of a police officer (Article 19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). He is left overnight in the Centralny police department, tomorrow he will be taken to the Central District Court. This was reported on the Crimean Solidarity Facebook page.

According to Crimean Solidarity, the rest of the detainees were released from the departments. It is noted that employees of the Zheleznodorozhny police department took fingerprints from the activists, including those on their feet, as well as DNA samples.

UPD 19:48 19-year-old Seitasan Asanov has already spent the night at the police station, we apologize for the inaccurate information.

On May 18, the Central District Court of Simferopol closed his case due to the lack of corpus delicti.