Participants in a brawl on the border of Ingushetia and North Ossetia have been detained
Young people involved in a fight at the Chermensky checkpoint have been detained. The security forces have not yet reported the number of detainees.
As "Kavkazsky Uzel" reported, at Chermensky checkpoint, which separates Ingushetia and North Ossetia, a fight between residents of the two republics occurred on the evening of August 24. Several dozen people from both sides took part in the clashes.
On August 24, in the village of Chermen in the Prigorodny District, a "domestic conflict occurred between young people, as a result of which one of the participants inflicted bodily harm on his opponent and fled, after which a crowd of local residents gathered," the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania announced today on its Telegram channel.
The security forces' press release noted that "police duty squads and Rosgvardia officers were sent to the scene of the incident, and the leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania left."
Criminal cases have been opened against the citizens involved on the grounds of crimes under Part 2 of Article 115 (intentional infliction of minor bodily harm) and Part 2 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (hooliganism). Two administrative protocols have been drawn up against another offender under Article 20.1 and 6.9 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation. He is in a temporary detention facility, the department explains, without disclosing the number of detained participants in the conflict.
Authorities called the village head's statement fake
Earlier, "Kavkazsky Uzel" wrote that on August 25, Sergei Menyailo instructed law enforcement agencies to close entry to the republic in the event of domestic conflicts that could escalate into larger-scale and interethnic conflicts. Posts about the incidents caused controversy on social networks: Ossetian users supported Menyailo's order to close entry into the republic from Ingushetia, while Ingush users recalled that the borders between the regions have not been officially defined.
On August 26, the authorities of North Ossetia distributed a refutation of information that, according to them, was spread among residents of the republic in messengers. The publications claimed that the head of the village of Chermen, Bela Agkatseva, asked "to introduce preventive restrictive measures in the territory of the Prigorodny district" with reference to the tension provoked by residents of the neighboring republic.
The messages were accompanied by a photograph of an alleged official letter from Agkatseva to Sergei Menyailo. Its text mentions residents of Ingushetia and the threat of "destabilization of the socio-political situation in the North Caucasus," and the request to impose restrictions, in particular, to ban the sale of alcoholic beverages and impose a curfew, is conditioned by the goal of "preventing a repeat of the tragic events of 1992." The regional control center reported that this letter is a fake.
According to the authorities, Bela Agkatseva herself denied the widespread rumor, stating that she did not send any letters to Menyailo. "The letter itself presented in the fake was composed with gross violations of office work, and the number indicated in it does not correspond to reality," the department's publication says.
On the evening of August 25, Sergei Menyailo himself blamed "instigators" for the conflict that arose. "The instigators attempted to involve "hot heads" from both the neighboring republic and ours in inflaming the situation. And it was precisely to this kind of situation that my words about possible entry restrictions applied," he wrote on the official Telegram channel.