The mayor of Moscow Sergey Sobyanin commented on the mass brawl in the capital the cemetery khovanskoye. According to him, the perpetrators of the incident should not escape responsibility.
“Regrettable incident at the cemetery khovanskoye. I am confident that the perpetrators will not go unpunished. Will render all necessary assistance to law enforcement agencies,” wrote the mayor in his Twitter.
Earlier on Saturday, may 14, on Khovansky a cemetery there was a fight in which took part, according to police, about 200 people. They were armed with shovels, pieces of rebar, bats, and firearms. Three people were killed and 26 people were injured. Criminal case about the murder, about 90 people were detained.
According to preliminary information of the Ministry of internal Affairs, the conflict situation arose between the employees, which citizens are hired for decorating graves, private. All citizens who participated in the conflict, were not employees of the cemetery. These are mainly foreign citizens, illegally staying on the territory of Russia.
In a police Central Board, commenting on the causes of the incident, talked about the attempt of repartition of spheres of influence at the cemetery. According to a source RIA Novosti, the natives of Dagestan and Chechnya seeking to occupy the territory to receive revenues from the service, attacked people from Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. It was also reported that protection of the cemetery allegedly tried to kick out illegals, which periodically penetrate into its territory, hiding there from inspections of law enforcement agencies.
