Russian police arrest more than 380 people after a nationalist protest over the murder of a local man turned violent.
Al-Jazeera - 14 Oct 2013
More than 380 people have been arrested after Russian nationalists
rampaged for hours in Moscow over the murder of a local man blamed on a
migrant.
Crowds on Sunday chanted slogans, including "Russia for Russians" and
"white power" in the protest in Biryulyovo, an industrial district of
southern Moscow.
Police ordered a city-wide security alert and began making arrests
after they smashed shop windows, set a shopping centre on fire and
assaulted security guards.
Witnesses said the protesters threw empty beer bottles, clubs and
even hammers at a riot police force that rushed to the scene in about a
dozen buses.
"I cannot believe this is happening in our city," one woman told
Russian state television "I am afraid to let my children out on the
street," said another.
A police spokesman told Russian media that the city's entire active
security force had been mobilised several hours into the riot. Five
police officers were injured, according to a police spokesman.
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