14.10 1,200 Detained at Vegetable Warehouse Targeted in Anti-Migrant Riots
MOSCOW, October 14 (RIA Novosti) Russian police said Monday that 1,200 people had been detained in Moscow at a vegetable warehouse targeted by anti-migrant rioters during violent clashes in the area the night before.
The new detentions followed on the heels of some 380 overnight. Police called the latest round preventative, saying they would check the thousand-plus people taken into custody for involvement in criminal activity.
Preliminary reports suggested that Mondays detentions targeted people who worked at the vegetable warehouse, which had come under attack Sunday, while the earlier detentions focused on those taking part in the weekends violence.
Photographs of Mondays police round-up showed a long line of men, many of them non-Slavic-looking, being led onto police buses.
