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| 'Uncle Tural' will 'decide' again? There are more and more questions for diasporas |
| 2024-01-05 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Mikhail Zakharov [REGNUM] The Urals are again restless - the new year begins with another crime with interethnic overtones. In Nizhny Tagil, two children were beaten by fifth-grader brothers. On December 29, 2023, near school No. 56, K. and R. first struck a boy in the face, and then knocked the girl down with a blow to the temple and began to brutally kick the lying child. The injured girl S. is now hospitalized, her health was seriously harmed, she received a closed craniocerebral injury and blunt abdominal trauma. S. is an orphan, her mother died, the girl is raised by her grandmother and father, who constantly works to feed the family. Now S. is undergoing treatment, and, hopefully, everything will be fine with the child’s physical and mental health. As with her family, there are many known cases where relatives of the victims were threatened by the attackers’ fellow tribesmen. The situation in Nizhny Tagil goes far beyond the scope of a school brawl: two strong teenagers deliberately caused serious harm to the health of a fragile young girl. At the same time, the brothers’ mother was nearby, filmed the beating on camera, and even took part in it personally, inflicting several blows on the victim (!). Moreover, this is not the first time that K. and R. committed illegal actions - they ended up in school No. 56 after they were expelled from their previous educational institution due to bullying other children, insults and hooliganism. At the new school, their habits remained the same, and the brothers chose victims from those children who were clearly weaker than them - at least earlier they had broken the glasses of another classmate. Local sources note that the teenagers’ mother, Fergana, responded rudely and sharply to numerous comments: other parents do not need to teach her how to raise children. According to the results, her education methods led to the fact that two fifth-graders, along with their older brother, who studies at the same school in the 6th grade, actually terrorized the students with impunity. By the way, Fergana herself does not want to talk about what happened. Today, law enforcement officers are conducting an investigation, a criminal case has been initiated, but due to the brothers’ age, they will only be registered by juvenile affairs inspectors. Rhetorical question: will this measure help them take the path of correction? Or will their classmates be bullied, insulted, humiliated and beaten again in the new year? There are many other concerns and questions about this story. According to law enforcement officers, the internal affairs bodies had not previously received complaints about the behavior of these teenagers either from the school administration or from parents. This certainly does not fit well with the information about the stories of K. and R.'s previous antics. And why did their mother's aggressive behavior not cause complaints? But there are questions not only for the family, which has become a threat to others. How will law enforcement agencies react to the behavior of a school security guard who was nearby but did nothing to stop the beating of children? What measures will the local education authority take? And how will city and regional authorities react to what happened? Unfortunately, there are chances that these questions will not receive proper answers. As soon as the story became public, Farukh Mirzoev, head of the “Association of National-Cultural Associations of the Sverdlovsk Region”, who is called the leader of the Sverdlovsk diasporas, made a statement: if the brothers are guilty, the diaspora will not cover them up (!), the teenagers will answer before the law. In response, the public asks why, in this case, what happened on December 29 received resonance and the attention of law enforcement agencies only a few days later? Are there any signs of a cover-up on the part of the diaspora? And is there any contribution from the diaspora in the appearance of publications that K. and R., ethnic Azerbaijanis, were allegedly bullied at school “for the wrong nationality”, and their alleged father is now also being bullied on social networks? The public is outraged by the very formulation of the question: what methods of protecting members of the diaspora are we talking about and what is the legal status of these associations? “And again, migrant diasporas and powerlessness, powerlessness. This is about a law that seems to be for everyone,” writes State Duma deputy Nikolai Valuev. It is very strange to see such claims to have a monopoly on power and law enforcement, notes Marina Akhmedova, member of the Human Rights Council under the President of the Russian Federation, editor-in-chief of Regnum news agency. Excuse me, what is a diaspora? This is a non-state entity that lives by concepts and tries to put its concepts above the law. How is the diaspora going to protect or punish someone? We have a law, a court, an investigation,” writes Marina Akhmedova. “If the investigation establishes that everything happened as they write, then the court of the Russian Federation will ask the brothers’ mother himself and will not need the help or approval of the diaspora.” Mr. Mirzoev, who believes that the Urals cannot do without migrants and advocates respect for the feelings and customs of visitors, attracted attention with other points of his statement. In particular, he talks about close work with law enforcement agencies and the migration service. His thought can also be understood this way: won’t “respected people” somehow influence the work of the police and the Investigative Committee? Again, a rhetorical question: I wonder if diasporas, with their dubious status, rhetoric and deeds, are lobbying for solutions that are beneficial to themselves, bypassing the law? These are unfounded fears, because the activities of migrant diasporas in Russia often raise great doubts and suspicions, including from law enforcement agencies. Consider the story in St. Petersburg with a gang of juvenile delinquents and their “Uncle Tural,” who “settles everything with the right person,” or the recent high-profile cases in Chelyabinsk, where, it is believed, local migrant associations were also involved. Will the investigation of the case be reduced to a formality with such introductory information? Will it be declared that there was a normal school conflict? The children, as the city education department says, “will be provided with psychological and pedagogical assistance,” and in the meantime it will turn out that no one was beaten or even offended, everyone made peace, everything will return to normal. Until new cases of violence generated by impunity. Unkind miracles happen - and especially often when “respected people” are interested in them. Therefore, in the case of the situation in Nizhny Tagil, such statements of “ diasporas, enclaves and other entities that, in principle, should not exist in a state of law,” as Marina Akhmedova points out, attract the closest attention to the further development of the case. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #1 Sounds like Mom and her insect offspring need their asses kicked 4 or 5 times a day |
| Posted by: Frank G 2024-01-05 10:38 |