BBC
October 14, 2013
![Hell yes: Protesters chanted "Russia for the Russians" - and the Kremlin responded by arresting over a thousand of the invaders.](/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Protesters-targeted-migrants-chanting-Russia-for-the-Russians.jpg)
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](/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/The-protesters-attacked-a-vegetable-market-where-migrants-work-leaving-produce-smashed-in-their-wake.jpg)
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.