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Moscow rally participants violated law - police
MOSCOW, August 25 (Itar-Tass) - Law-enforcement authorities defended
the actions by police during the rally in central Moscow on Saturday,
saying its participants had grossly violated the rules of holding such
actions and therefore provoked police into using force.
"On Saturday, August 22, Moscow City Hall permitted a group of
citizens to hold a rally on the occasion of Day of State Flag at the
intercrossing of Novinsky Boulevard and Novy Arbat Streets. However,
instead of the declared 50 people, some 150 had gathered, which was a
serious violation of the effective legislation," Interior Ministry
spokesman Maj-Gen Valery Gribakin told Itar-Tass on Monday.
"Two organizers of the action were brought to a police station, where
protocols of administrative offense was drawn.
"A group of rally participants moved toward the Arbatskaya subway
station, having unfolded flags and broadsheets with slogans. In effect,
they organized an unsanctioned march.
"The police officers watching order in the district demanded that the
rally stop illegal actions, but young people were behaving quite
aggressively.
"As a result, police detained nine people and brought them to a police
station. One of them, Ilya Yashin, hit his head on the car as he was
getting into a van. Police called an ambulance, which rushed the injured
man to hospital.
"We're surprised at the biased covered of the situation by the mass
media. They alleged that special task force police had attacked peaceful
rally participants without reasons. It's all an invention, this
information does not correspond to reality.
"We repeatedly encounter the situation when participants in a number
of movements, in a bid to draw the public's attention to their activity,
violate the effective legislation on purpose, provoke police, and then
actively give interviews about the "outrage" committed by law-enforcers.
"As for the Saturday incident, there would have been no problems if
the participants in the action had not deliberately violated the
legislation," Gribakin said.
the actions by police during the rally in central Moscow on Saturday,
saying its participants had grossly violated the rules of holding such
actions and therefore provoked police into using force.
"On Saturday, August 22, Moscow City Hall permitted a group of
citizens to hold a rally on the occasion of Day of State Flag at the
intercrossing of Novinsky Boulevard and Novy Arbat Streets. However,
instead of the declared 50 people, some 150 had gathered, which was a
serious violation of the effective legislation," Interior Ministry
spokesman Maj-Gen Valery Gribakin told Itar-Tass on Monday.
"Two organizers of the action were brought to a police station, where
protocols of administrative offense was drawn.
"A group of rally participants moved toward the Arbatskaya subway
station, having unfolded flags and broadsheets with slogans. In effect,
they organized an unsanctioned march.
"The police officers watching order in the district demanded that the
rally stop illegal actions, but young people were behaving quite
aggressively.
"As a result, police detained nine people and brought them to a police
station. One of them, Ilya Yashin, hit his head on the car as he was
getting into a van. Police called an ambulance, which rushed the injured
man to hospital.
"We're surprised at the biased covered of the situation by the mass
media. They alleged that special task force police had attacked peaceful
rally participants without reasons. It's all an invention, this
information does not correspond to reality.
"We repeatedly encounter the situation when participants in a number
of movements, in a bid to draw the public's attention to their activity,
violate the effective legislation on purpose, provoke police, and then
actively give interviews about the "outrage" committed by law-enforcers.
"As for the Saturday incident, there would have been no problems if
the participants in the action had not deliberately violated the
legislation," Gribakin said.
