Moscow mayhem (video)

A crowd of neo-nationalists and football fans started looting the trade centre Biryuza and a vegetable warehouse near Birulyovo on October 13. The police detained 400 people. Then they raided the warehouse and detained 1200 migrants.

It started because people demanded to find the murderer of 25-year-old Yegor Shcherbakov. A stranger stabbed him with a knife on the night of October 10 before his girlfriend’s very eyes. The murder looked like a person born in central Asia or the Caucasus, the girl said (see the video).

The criminal was not found several days later and people gathered to express their protest. The protest action turned into clashes with the riot police and in looting a trade centre and a vegetable warehouse. The crowd started destroying the other shops and kiosks in the way.

Why did people hate the trade centre and the vegetable warehouse so much?

Migrants usually gathered there, the action participants thought.  It meant that the criminal could be hiding there too. People disliked that place.

"You are walking with kids and they come and touch your breasts and a*s. They do not respect us. They think that we are sluts,” local women told Russia 24.

Politician Alexei Navalnyi published complaints about the vegetable warehouse in his blog. People complained about it 2 years ago.

"The place was a huge problem; it was roaming with illegal immigrants many of whom were robbers. It is necessary to control such objects and remove them from Moscow.”

The warehouse was closed when the detained were standing trials on October 14. The police organized “a preventive raid” and detained 1200 migrants.

A car with a million Russian roubles and weapons was found on the territory of the warehouse.

Over a thousand migrants were detained at the Moscow market Sadovod at the beginning of August 2013. Some people were indignant at the videos showing migrants being escorted like criminals.

Alexei Navalyi is urging to introduce a visa regime for the Middle Asia and Transcaucasia. Over 8 thousand people have already signed the petition.

Meanwhile, Moscow Muslims are marking Kurban Bayram today.

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