Police of St. Petersburg will conduct weekly anti -migrant raids

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Police units of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region plan to conduct weekly raids in the regions "to identify illegal immigrants." Cooperation: TSI plans to regularly check Migranto's places of residence: K, catering enterprises and trading floors.

Since the beginning of December, the Russian police held several large -scale anti -migrant raids. In the Tula region, the security forces conducted raids in Wildberries warehouse, in Yekaterinburg in the Greenwich shopping center, in St. Petersburg after a mass fight from the Lakhta Center detained at least 100 migranto: K, in Saratov, raids were held in cafes, bars and nightclubs.

The pressure from the security forces is accompanied by the frequent attacks of neo -Nazi groups. NMVP project Nazi Video Monitoring Project notes that in November the cruelty of attacks from the ultra -right ones increased, and most attacks took place on racial grounds. At the same time, the independent trade union “Courier” reported at least four attacks on Migranto: to during the work shift.

The Bellingcat investigative publication, based on the analysis of photographs and video recordings of anti-migrant raids, came to the conclusion that the author: KI right-winged telegram channels play an active role in organizing police raids.

“They regularly publish information about events or addresses of places where migrants gather - or those whom they consider migrants. When the police raids follow this, the members of these Xenophobic groups are at the scene with their smartphones to capture violence against migrants <...>, - the author writes: Ki research.

“Now the difference is not so much in the number of“ raids ”as in their quality. If earlier such events were held by the police independently, now the “raids” are carried out by filing nationalist communities. The police clearly flaunts these measures, not only hiding violations of the rights of migrants and Russians with the migration past, and their neglect of them as people, but often directly emphasizes all this, including transmitting the results of official recruitment of right -winging communities in telegrams, ”the Doxa commented on the situation of Doxa, Alexander Kim.

Also, according to Alexander, the situation with the promotion of anti -migrant rhetoric is directly related to the outbreak of full -scale war in Ukraine and the upcoming presidential election:

“Since migrants are now virtually devoid of real protection on the part of the law, they are a social group that is most convenient for simulating the imaginary efficiency of the Russian state on them. For many years, migrants in Russia have been used by the state to canalize the aggression of society. In fact, now migrants are a “traditional target”. The logical result of anti -migrant propaganda was that the infringement of the legal rights of migrants and representatives of national minorities is perceived by a significant part of Russian society, as a kind of “establishing justice”. In the context of what has been said, anti -migrant rhetoric also matters to the elections, since, depending on how “effective” and “fair” the state in the eyes of society will be - the support of the state in the elections in the elections will be so high. ”