A herd of imprisoned children."
On Saturday night there was a large-scale attack on teenagers in Kiti-Gorod. Police arrested several hundred people. Muscovite Andrey, who was also taken to the police station that evening, says that almost everyone he came across was arrested, including ordinary passers-by. There were 30 people packed in the paddy wagons; There was nothing to breathe.
The vast majority of those arrested were under the age of 18. They were held in the police yard for about three hours. Soon crowds of parents gathered outside the wards. At first they were not allowed past the duty station, and the children were not returned to them for a long time. In any case, assaults on adults and teenagers should be different, explains Igor Simonov, a partner at the Gagarin law firm. He said that because it is difficult to determine whether a person is an adult during an arrest, police were apparently initially instructed to take into account that many may be under 18. He mentions that detention without charge can last up to three hours. Therefore, if the young people were in a group that violated public order, there was nothing unusual in their arrest.
According to the official version, these measures by the Ministry of the Interior were preventive, aimed at ensuring public order in the city. In recent years, Kiti-Gorod has indeed become the main attraction for revelers in Moscow. including the very young. Residents of the area have long complained about fights, parties that continue well into the night and a generally uneasy environment. The member of the Public Council of the Russian Interior Ministry for Moscow, Konstantin Krukhmal, believes that the task of the police in this case was "to make it clear that there is power in the city". In his opinion, parents should be responsible for the actions of children who do not study but hang around the streets.
Police attacks on teenagers vacationing in Kitai Gorod began this summer.