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| 'Azerbaijani mafia'. How a gang of teenagers terrorized St. Petersburg |
| 2023-11-04 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] Minor Tural Mamedov, suspected of organizing hooligan beatings of residents of St. Petersburg, was detained in Azerbaijan on November 3. He administrated a Telegram channel in which videos of beatings were published, and was the last person involved in the high-profile case not yet detained. “We sent a request from the Russian side in accordance with the convention, ” Rashada Orujova, press secretary of the city public organization “Azerbaijani National-Cultural Autonomy of St. Petersburg and Leningrad Region,” confirmed to Izvestia . She said that Mamedov did not directly participate in the life of the diaspora, but the head of the organization, Vagif Mamishev, contacted his family and harshly condemned his actions. Mamedov’s parents apologized to the St. Petersburg residents who suffered from their son’s actions. BEATINGS AND FIGHTS Videos with young Azerbaijanis were shown to the head of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin. According to investigators, they acted solely from hooligan motives and committed attacks out of hatred. They recorded each beating on video, then published it on social networks and, in particular, on the Telegram channel “Life of a Tramp.” As a rule, the victims were teenagers like the defendants themselves, or random but drunk passers-by. Under some videos in the channel there was a caption “Azerbaijani mafia”. PERSECUTION AND PUNISHMENT Mamedov was put on the wanted list at the end of October, and he was given a preventive measure in the form of detention in absentia. In total, 12 young people were detained in a criminal case of hooliganism (Article 213 of the Criminal Code) and inciting hatred and enmity (Article 282), among whom, in addition to Azerbaijanis, were Tajiks and Dagestanis, some of whom have Russian citizenship. As investigators reported, in St. Petersburg they are searching the possible locations of accomplices of the “Azerbaijani mafia”; they have already checked a sports club and a factory in the Leningrad region and several restaurants. As Regnum reported, at the end of September, migrants who attacked girls in the Kalininsky district of the city were detained in St. Petersburg . They didn’t like that the girls had piercings on their faces and their hair was dyed an unusual color. One of the detainees threatened them with a knife. A criminal case was opened against the natives of Tajikistan for threatening to kill or cause grievous bodily harm. |
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