A spontaneous rally took place in Yakutia due to the murder of a local resident

Dozens of people protested in Yakutsk over the murder of a local resident, in which a native of Tajikistan is suspected of involvement. They gathered on Victory Square, Sakhaday reports. Eyewitnesses told Sibir.Realii editorial office about the detention of at least 15 people.

The police told the protesters that the murder suspect had been detained, and emphasized that he was a citizen of Russia.

Local mass media report that the participants of the action on Victory Square have dispersed. The police detained several people on Lenin Square, people ran away from the police directly across the road.

According to eyewitnesses, some of the protesters managed to get to Ordzhonikidze Square (the march there was originally planned), where the police were already waiting for them, who detained the “most active”.

The press service of the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs reported that an 18-year-old suspect and a 23-year-old native of the Namsky District started a domestic conflict in the Mint club, and then the 23-year-old resident of Yakutia found the suspect’s address through social networks and came to him with his acquaintances In the fight, according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, three people were stabbed, and a 23-year-old participant in the conflict died. The Ministry of Internal Affairs did not specify when exactly the fight took place, but noted that the suspect was pulled over on January 22.

The head of the republic, Aysen Nikolaev, wrote in a telegram about the arrest of the suspect and tried to calm the residents. “I am sure: both the investigators and the court will approach the case without compromise, the guilty will be held accountable for the crime to the full extent of the law. Evil will not go unpunished! I will keep the course of the investigation under personal control,” the official wrote.

He added that the suspect comes from Tajikistan and is a citizen of Russia. “We will find out all the circumstances of their obtaining Russian citizenship. Such people have no place in our society,” Nikolaev noted.

The head of the Tajik community, Khody Oev, recorded a video appeal to the residents, asking them not to judge the entire nation by one person. The video was published by the Ministry of External Relations of Yakutia.

The court arrested the suspect for two months. The defense insists that it was self-defense. It is reported that the suspect is Mukhamad Odinaev, a delivery worker who was tried for robbery in 2022.

• In March 2019, mass protests took place in Yakutia after a local resident was raped by a Kyrgyz citizen. Thousands of people participated in the rallies. Threats began to come to the visitors. The bus driver, a migrant, was attacked by seven people. More than 80 drivers did not go on flights.
• Then the mayor of Yakutsk, Sardana Avksentieva, said that the real reasons for the protests in the capital of Yakutia were the economic situation in Russia, rising prices, low incomes and high unemployment.