Nearly 400 People Detained in Immigration Raid in Russia

H/T Magic Martin article and video

NYT:

By ANDREW ROTH
Published: April 11, 2013

MOSCOW — Russian security services and immigration police raided a market in the center of St. Petersburg on Thursday and detained 378 people, many of them migrants from Central Asia and the mainly Muslim North Caucasus.

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The arrests followed an armed melee at the gates of the market early Thursday morning in which one man died of a knife wound. Local news reports said he was from the Kabardino-Balkaria Republic of the North Caucasus.

In a statement, St. Petersburg police called the follow-up raids a preventive measure and said that immigration police were reviewing residency permits for 330 of those detained. The statement said that 26 people had been charged with hooliganism and 19 people were being investigated for participating in the fight.

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7 Replies to “Nearly 400 People Detained in Immigration Raid in Russia”

  1. I don’t like the Russian Government and I don’t trust Putin, but I will say that they are doing the right thing with the Moslem troublemakers.

  2. The Russian government makes the fictional Umbrella Corporation look like a bit player.

  3. I don’t trust Putin either. But if it were only me and America was circling the drain, I would choose Putin over Obama any day of the week. Obama is willing to sacrifice his mother’s side of the family. Putin has many faults and warts, but he is more of a fighter than Obama.

  4. This is possible, maybe even probable, make things so bad the people will welcome anyone who makes things safer.