In Chelyabinsk, Russian teenagers were made to stand out in a fight with migrants
While some deputies and media personalities are outraged by the lawlessness on the part of migrants (with the inaction of the State Duma, which does not pass laws tightening migration), in Chelyabinsk, in the conflict between Russian teenagers and migrants, it was Russian children who turned out to be the extreme ones.
We are talking about a mass brawl that occurred on the territory of Chelyabinsk educational center No. 5 back on February 8 of last year - the trial has been ongoing for several months, the end of which is not yet in sight.
The investigation considers the victims to be immigrants from Central Asia. Charges were brought against four participants in the fight - all of them Russian.
Why did this happen and who is really responsible for the fight?
Who is right, who is wrong?
The high-profile case of a mass fight between Chelyabinsk teenagers and children of visitors from Central Asia has been going on for more than a year. It all started with a conflict between Russian schoolchildren and teenagers from Central Asia.
Children of migrants hit two schoolchildren with a “arrow” to sort out the conflict situation. At this meeting, immigrants from Central Asia took pepper spray from schoolchildren and threatened them with an electric shock, promising to take them to the forest and continue the showdown there. However, their comrades soon came to their aid.
As a result, a fight broke out - first on the school grounds, and then in the building of the educational center, where immigrants from Central Asia ran in. Cameras from OC No. 5 (general education center) filmed a fight in the lobby.
Two participants in the fight were hospitalized with beatings, and the participants in the fight were subsequently arrested. Russian teenagers were named as the culprits of the situation.
The father of one of the defendants, Danil Verkholantsev, said: the investigation is unfair and turns a blind eye to the facts. According to Verkholantsev, his son and his friends only wanted to protect their friends - students of OC No. 2, who were victims of extortion by the victim - Firuz and his company. For refusal, they promised to take him to the forest and humiliate him, says the defendant’s father. Fearing reprisals, the schoolchildren turned to their comrades for help.
The police quickly found the teenagers - the boys were in the same apartment at the time. They were built and photographed, and the pictures then somehow ended up on the Internet, despite the fact that many of the characters are minors.
The brawl was classified as hooliganism, but subsequently some participants in the brawl became defendants in another case, under a more serious charge.
The defense notes that “during the investigation, Firuz (the same teenager who scored the “arrow” on Russian schoolchildren) poses as an innocent person, but at the same time takes a stun gun with him to the meeting, takes away the spray can and at the same time claims that the guys should not have shown any concerns for your life and health."
Parents of migrant children, in turn, say that there was “just a misunderstanding between the boys.” In migrant chats they even write that Russian schoolchildren were nationalists and were prejudiced against non-Russians.
As a result, one side claims that the Russian boys came to protect their friend from an ethnic gang of youngsters (the Firuz gang), and the opposite side, on the contrary, claims that they suffered from “Russian nationalists.”
Platon, the same guy they tried to help, explained in court that he and his friend Nikita found themselves in a hopeless situation, since Firuz regularly pestered him, demanding money and threatening him.
Why is the investigation unbiased?
From the very beginning, Russian teenagers were declared by the investigation to be the culprits and instigators of the fight. Contrary to the law, they have been sitting in a pre-trial detention center for a year, moreover, their sentence was extended for another six months.
Chelyabinsk has recently become famous for its scandals with migrants. Here is the murder of a schoolboy near the Cosmos shopping center by natives of Tajikistan, and the murder of North Military District veteran Maxim Nikitin by migrant and MMA fighter Rustam Baizhumenov, who spent five and a half months in a pre-trial detention center and was released right in the courtroom (because he received 1,5 years in prison freedom).
In Chelyabinsk, justice often takes the side of migrants. This happens because the influence of diasporas in the region is very great.
“The political weight of diasporas in Chelyabinsk is so serious that it allows them to obtain almost any court decisions,”
– journalist Andrei Medvedev wrote back in March.
The teenagers’ lawyer, Dmitry Russkikh, noted last year that the investigator was unable to add to the case that the migrants themselves always go armed with hammers, knives, sticks, traumatic pistols and gas canisters. Also, the investigator was unable to see in the video recordings how, at one point in the fight, the three migrants themselves beat one of the participants in the fight. Therefore, I concluded that the so-called “victims” only avoided the fight and ran away.
It is obvious that the investigation in Chelyabinsk is not entirely impartial. And perhaps the “long hand” of the diasporas could not have happened here either.
Recently, another court hearing took place, but no progress in the case has yet been planned.
Pro-migrant and anti-Russian The trial in Chelyabinsk continues...
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