On August 21, a mass brawl took place in the village of Podgornoye, Kemerovo Region, during which, according to various sources, from 20 to 60 people participated. According to regional media, the reason for the fight allegedly was the harassment of local gypsies to the residents of the village. During the scuffle, two people received stab wounds - now both victims are in the hospital.
Two criminal cases were opened on the facts of bodily harm, according to the website of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Kemerovo Region. The suspect has already been detained, in the near future they should choose a preventive measure.
A message about a scuffle to law enforcement officials came from a medical facility where the wounded were taken. One of the victims is in the surgery department with injuries of the abdominal cavity, the second - in intensive care with wounds in the neck and chest. Doctors assess his condition as serious.
After the scuffle, information appeared that local men began to gather outside the house on Severnaya Street, where a large gypsy family allegedly lives. According to local media reports, on August 22, the crowd reached 100.
In social networks and some publications, there were reports that, to control the situation, additional police units were pulled to the place of mass crowds, as well as OMON and Rosguard officers, who had been on duty for the second day near the house, not letting in a crowd supposedly demanding to give gypsies to lynching.
However, this information is not confirmed either in the Ministry of Internal Affairs or in the administration of the settlement.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs said that the situation in the village remains calm, and the reason for the fight on August 21 was the usual domestic conflict that occurred a few days earlier. The press release of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Leninsk-Kuznetsk district notes that all participants in the brawl on August 21 at that time were drunk. In addition, they were all previously convicted.
The ministry confirmed that Podgorny is taking steps to protect the rule of law, but there is no talk of introducing riot police.
“In the village, police officers conduct measures to protect public order and prevent crime. Today, in the rural settlement, the district police commissioners conducted a house bypass. They talked with all the inhabitants. Throughout the day, citizens on personal matters are received by the head of the district commissioner service of the regional police headquarters. The situation in the village is calm, ”the law enforcement official said.
In turn, the head of the Podgornovsky rural settlement, Vyacheslav Buymov, claims that information about the mass protests of local residents against the Roma is not true. Buymov emphasizes that everything that is happening now in the village is “an ordinary conflict”.
“This is all fake. There is no riot police at home. Inflated do not understand what. Gypsies? What kind of gypsies are we talking about, citizens of the Russian Federation live here. The punishment for the participants will be administrative, most likely. Well, as for the victims - this is already a consequence, let them figure it out, ”the settlement head told RT.
Law enforcement authorities also emphasize that there are no gypsy settlements in the village of Podgornoye in the Kemerovo Region - according to reports, no more than 17 gypsies per 1000 people live in the village. Moreover, according to 2010 data, the population of Podgorny was only 800 people.
On June 13, in the village of Chemodanovka, Penza Region, a conflict between Russian residents of the settlement and local Gypsies occurred. The reason was the harassment of gypsies to girls at a local pond. When more than 20 men gathered at the house of the gypsies to "sort it out", a fight broke out.
In total, about 100 people took part in the brawl. One local resident was killed in the conflict, four people were injured. The day after the fight, several hundred Chemodanovka residents blocked the Ural federal highway, demanding to punish the murderers of a fellow villager.
Frightened by unrest, several hundred gypsies fled from the environs of Penza. Abandoned were 90 houses in Chemodanivka and the neighboring village of Lopatki. Two months after the events in Chemodanivka, the regional administration reported that all gypsy families who had left the area due to the riots returned to their homes.