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| Court sentences four participants in pogroms at Makhachkala airport | ||
| 2025-01-23 | ||
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] In Stavropol Krai, a court found four defendants in the case of mass riots at the Makhachkala airport guilty. This was reported on January 22 by the press service of the regional prosecutor's office. The Kochubeevsky District Court found Akhmed Magomedbekov, Murtazali Murtazaliev, Shamil Mugutdinov and Radzhab Mutayev guilty under articles on participation in mass riots accompanied by violence, pogroms, destruction of property, as well as armed resistance to government officials, and on failure to comply with safety requirements at transport infrastructure facilities by a group of persons by prior conspiracy. The investigation established that the men participated in the riots at the Uytash airport
“The unlawful actions of the rioters destroyed and damaged airport property worth more than 24 million rubles, and violated transport and aviation security requirements... Unlawful actions were committed against 30 government officials, 23 of whom suffered bodily injuries of varying severity,” the statement reads. The court sentenced the accused to 8 to 10 years and 3 months in a general regime penal colony. As reported by the Regnum news agency, on the evening of October 29, 2023, over 1,200 people rioted at the Uytash airport, first breaking into the building and then onto the airfield. There they surrounded a bus with passengers from a plane arriving from Tel Aviv. The riots occurred against the backdrop of the escalation of the Middle East conflict and the situation in the Gaza Strip. Security forces stopped the actions of the hooligans, and the passengers of the flight were not harmed. On July 9, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Dagestan, Abdurashid Magomedov, reported that about 1,200 people from among the hooligans were brought to administrative responsibility and about 140 were taken into custody. On October 30, 2023, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the riots at Makhachkala airport were organized by Western intelligence agents. The head of state added that they were organized through social networks, including from Ukraine.
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