A broken hour

January 23 in Krasnoyarsk: the power operation began when exclusively young people remained in the squares

The protest in support of Navalny in Krasnoyarsk flowed peacefully and without much excesses for more than two hours, when at 16.10 smoke bombs were lit in front of the mayor. For some reason, by this moment, the city hall managed to concentrate in front of the doors, lined up in the battle order of riot police and police officers in helmets, body armor and batons.

No one then threw anything to the police, clods of ice and snow flew later (and a flurry of snowballs demolished the man in the colonel papaha). And on this smoke from the checkers the "astronauts" and went, tough detention began. People were grabbed from the crowd and carried away. Some dragged on the ground. I counted at least 25 detainees - guys and girls.

He heard behind him: "There, they took a little one." Indeed, the police took off a very tiny girl somewhere.

Next has already been carried - four - a girl’s girl. Some friends tried to beat off, and short brawls flashed. The crack of torn jackets, loud blows with batons - means not only on the legs, hands and backs. Crows and curses. After that, the police began to throw snowballs.

Violence with all the obviously the police showed completely excessive and simply excessive: until that moment, people gathered on Red Square and shouting a little (“Russia, come out!”, “Krasnoyarsk, come out!”, “Changes!”, “Aquadiscode!”, “Putin - Down with it!”, “Navalny, we are power!”, “We will be free!”, Reached Kravoyeva! ”) The administrations stood, shouted and sang there, then walked to the city hall. We walked along the central streets, stretched out to several quarters (according to my estimates, about one and a half thousand people participated in spontaneous rallies and guilies), passing cars lowered glasses, signaling in support, sent air kisses. A huge wedding limousine stopped, and the crowd chanted him “bitterly!”. The newlyweds also left Pushkin’s theater, everyone greeted each other, sang Tsoi (“Changes!”), Nobody was going to fight. And no one wanted to take the city hall storm with storm - round dance circled next to her: “Aquadiscopeta!”

At the very beginning, on Red Square, the police tried to cut the people with couplings and their quick restraints, but nothing came of it-too many people gathered. And he rushed through the periodically arising gaps: "We go for a walk!" Then the chains were exhibited on Karl Marx Street-but, as always in Russia, something was missing here, and they missed the protesters, or they themselves found loopholes, walked around the yards. Although even then the first detention took place, a single.

When the procession was approaching the city hall and theater square (opera), people were not disconnected, they themselves were divided into several flows - otherwise it was impossible to go along the sidewalks, without going to the road. But then, from different ends, the protesters began to flock to the square and the bridge from the city hall to the square. Someone was already frozen and went home, the older generation has a two-hour walking through the streets, and only the youth with its enthusiasm walked on. And if before that - on Red Square and under the monument to Lenin near the regional administration - provocateurs, just drunk, those who are not in their minds, besieged the older generation, then here, the city hall, already had almost exclusively young people.

And then something broke into the mood of the police. Before that, there was no noticeably any bitterness on both sides, and those who are in the helmets, and those who are in hats with a cockerel or without hats and with ironware, even exchanged jokes. Fathers and children, no atrocities.

Half an hour ago, an attack of epilepsy occurred with a young Navalnovist, and the police helped to keep him his head, unclenched his jaws, called the guy an ambulance, and now they were already lushing his friends with batons.

Before that, first someone launches a rocket, and then the smoke bombs are set fire.

Power operation - it was planned or not - turned out to be a clear target audience. Shield and student.

After a three -hour festival and skirmishes of young people, both from the city hall and the viaduct leading to the theater square were pushed out and the action began to fade away.