"If you are Tajik, I will not go with you"

After the terrorist attack in Crocus, the citizens of Tajikistan collided in Russia with special hatred and aggression. Here are just a few examples

After the terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall and the detention of the suspects who turned out to be citizens of Tajikistan, the security forces strengthened the testing of people with the “eastern appearance”. In Russian cities, people refuse to travel by taxi with drivers from Tajikistan, and the heads of Tajik diasporas, as Baza’s telegram channel writes, recommend that their fellow citizens not leave the house in the evenings. Barbershop employees, in which one of the detainees worked for less than three months, began to en masse of the threats. Medusa collected several examples of how the Russians reacted to the attack and news that Tajikistan citizens are suspected of attacking Crocus.

The day after the terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall, the names of the suspects appeared in social networks, whom the security forces detained, as claimed, on the way to the Russian-Ukrainian border in the Bryansk region. One of them, 19-year-old Muhammadsobir Fayzov, as it turned out , worked for several months in the Barbershop "Square" in the city of Teikovo, Ivanovo Region. Upon learning of this, local residents began to threaten the administrator of the salon and masters.

In the screenshots published by the Baza telegram channel, users offer to “come to the crowd” to “this barbershop” and write that they will calculate and burn the houses of employees. Where these comments are left, it is not specified (the page of the barbershop has other addresses and the date of creation). Apparently, they were written in the unofficial community of Barbershop in VKontakte, but now they are not there.

However, on March 23, a record appeared on the wall of the official publicshop public on March 23 that there was "wild hatred" on the salon. " “They call and threaten the administrator and masters, people give poor grades and write terrible reviews,” the report said. Barbershop employees claim that Fayzov worked in the cabin for several weeks and was on a trial since November 2023, and after that they did not support him. This record was later removed from the wall, and the public became closed.

Director of Barbershop Yamin Safieva told the Moscow Komsomolets that the leaders of the salon were “not silent phones” because they are called and written with threats. “People wish death, call me. I am pregnant, I don't know what to do. I'm afraid to go outside, ”she said. According to her, the employees did not notice anything suspicious of Fayzov. The correspondent of RIA Novosti, who visited Barbershop on March 25, said that the employees were taken to testify (Safiev also spoke about the same).

In Yekaterinburg, according to the local edition of ITʼS My City, the patrols began to stop men with the Eastern appearance, and the administration of one of the shopping centers requested information about employees from Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Kyrgyzstan.

In addition, some taxi users began to refuse travel with drivers from Tajikistan. Telegram channels and public lay out screenshots in which people in applications write to drivers to cancel the order if they are from Tajikistan. “Hello, if you cancel the order, I won’t go with you,” one of the users writes (spelling and punctuation are saved).

The heads of the Tajik diasporas, as Baza Telegram channel writes , recommended that their fellow citizens not leave home in the evenings after work and not attend mass events. Some employers, according to the telegram channel, asked their employees from Tajikistan to hand over current personal data: name, passport data and information about the place of residence.

The warning was also published by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kyrgyzstan, who recommended that his citizens temporarily refrain from traveling to Russia in connection with the introduction of enhanced security measures. Those who are already in Russia were advised to carry documents with them.

The model and blogger from Tajikistan Dina Saeva recorded the appeal in which she supported her compatriots. “We must all close together against terrorism, and not a nation in the person of my compatriots. Tens of millions of Tajiks are not to blame for this act of violence, which has no excuse, ” says Saeva.

State Duma deputy Konstantin Zatulin said that people who call for pogroms and lynching after the attack should be held accountable because they essentially "provoke the destabilization of within the country." In his opinion, the struggle with migrants in this form "inevitably came around exacerbation."