Russia: More than 1200 Arrested in Muslim Immigrant Crackdown

BBC
October 14, 2013

Hell yes: Protesters chanted "Russia for the Russians" - and the Kremlin responded by arresting over a thousand of the invaders.
Hell yes: Protesters chanted “Russia for the Russians” – and the Kremlin responded by arresting over a thousand of the invaders.
Police in Russia have arrested more than 1,200 people in a raid targeting migrants after major riots in Moscow.

The “preventative raid” targeted workers at a vegetable warehouse, which was attacked by demonstrators on Sunday, Russian news agencies reported.

Angry protesters overran the market searching for migrant workers.

The rioting began during a protest over the killing of an ethnic Russian man on Thursday, allegedly by a Muslim migrant from the North Caucasus.

Ethnic Russian Yegor Shcherbakov, 25, was killed in front of his girlfriend in the capital’s Biryulyovo district.

The protesters attacked a vegetable market where migrants work, leaving produce smashed in their wake
The protesters attacked a vegetable market where migrants work, leaving produce smashed in their wake
Police have released a security camera photo of the suspect, but have not identified him.

Media said the image suggested the man was of “non-Slavic appearance”, leading nationalists to conclude the killer was a Muslim migrant from the Russian North Caucasus.

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