Law enforcement officers of St. Petersburg detained several nationalists for inappropriate behavior in public places, the remaining participants in the action managed to hide.
Initially, the action against illegal migration had the status of a rally agreed with the authorities. According to law enforcement officers, the total number of activists who participated in the procession amounted to about one and a half dozen citizens. Until the end of the rally, some nationalists headed towards the Apraksin of the courtyard, a place where the overwhelming number of migrants abides. In the area of the intersection with Nevsky Prospekt, activists blocked the movement of vehicles along Sadovaya. In the same place, nationalists caused serious bodily harm to a man of non -Slavic nationality, who followed them. According to one of the news agencies, participants in the action beat several migrants. After some time, OMON fighters detained a group of nationalists, but several participants in the action managed to get to the Apraksin of the courtyard. Of the total number of rallying law enforcement officials, only two nationalists managed to detain, the rest were settled. In addition, law enforcement officers detained 6 people for inappropriate behavior in a public place. The shares of nationalists in Russian cities have become more frequent in connection with recent riots in the metropolitan district of Biryulyovo. On the day of the celebration of the Muslim holiday of Kurban Bayram, law enforcement officers of St. Petersburg were detained by Nikolai Bondarik, the organizer of provocation against visiting citizens. According to investigative bodies, together with his associates, Bondarik forced several young people to cause bodily harm, and then declare through social networks the unlawful actions from migrants.