The Ministry of Internal Affairs found no violations in the actions of the police at the Hip-Hop Mayday festival

The Moscow Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs found no violations in the actions of police officers at the Hip-Hop Mayday music festival , where security forces beat visitors. This was reported by Human Rights Postcards.

“The police officers, when performing their official duties, acted in strict accordance with the requirements of the Federal Law,” says the response from the Ministry of Internal Affairs. filed a complaint against the police Rapper Noize MC .

the beating of festival visitors The National Guard called “adequate to the situation.” The head of the international human rights group "Agora" Pavel Chikov reported that after a clash between security forces and concert participants, a criminal case was opened for hooliganism by a group of people (Part 2 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code).

The festival took place on May 1 in Luzhniki. Visitors spoke of beatings by police and National Guardsmen who used batons. The conflict occurred because too many people came to the event and they were no longer allowed inside. According to the Baza telegram channel , a total of 18 people were hospitalized that day, most of them had fractures or dislocations.

Mediazona published a story by a fourth-year student at the Higher School of Economics, Maxim Sidorenko, who received a traumatic brain injury due to a beating.