Young women are still kidnapped in Chechnya

Dozens of persons were eyewitnesses of the kidnapping of a young woman committed on June 8 by workers of unidentified power agencies near the bus station of the "Berkat" shopping in Grozny. They were shocked by the manner the "special operation" was conducted. They treat the actions of power agents as inadequate.

"I still can't recover from the shock that I then experienced. With my friend I was about to take a fixed-route taxi No. 12, when the whole thing began. All of a sudden, militaries and persons in civilian clothes started running from all directions; they grasped a young woman; and everyone of them tried to hit or kick her, crying wildly that she should be assassinated," Khava, a woman from Grozny, said to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

"The crowd of men in uniform and without, with arms in hand, set at the poor woman, trying to push her into a car. Someone started shouting"She should be murdered! Bring a knife quickly!" One of them ran away and soon returned with a huge hatchet. We even thought that they were going to knife her down right in the place," said another eyewitness, who presented himself as Ibragim.

According to his story, the girl was pushed into the car and taken away somewhere. One of the kidnappers ran to his car with a grenade, allegedly taken away from the girl. 

In relation to the incident, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told at the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Chechnya that they hardly have any information. Magomed Deniev, head of the press service, promised to try to find some data on the incident, however, in his opinion, the incident "seemed not to appear in official reports." As he added, he himself had learnt from media about what happened on June 8.

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