The Dagestani community of Sochi discussed the mass scuffle in which Garanyan perished

On May, 20, a discussion of the mass scuffle between the Dagestanies and the Armenians as a result of which a person perished was held in the hall of Adler music school of Sochi. About 400 persons took part in the meeting.

The mass scuffle took place on May, 1, in Sochi. According to local police, several tens young people took part in it. Yury Garanyan aged 23, Master of Sports in tae kwon do, perished from a knife wounding as a result.

“This event roused up the public but there are few who know the truth”, Rashida Nurmagomedova, Deputy Chairman of Dagestani Cultural Center of Sochi, said.

According to her, four Dagestanies who came to the Olympic building site took a little drop and went for a walk in “Riviera” park. One of the guys touched a girl he liked but it emerged that she was married and her husband was nearby.

According to Nurmagomedova, a scuffle started as a result. She said that the conflict continued in Donskaya street where the Dagestanies were called to apologize before the girl and her husband. “Six persons were beaten up by about 300 representatives of the Armenian diaspora”, the activist said.

The representative of the Dagestani community pointed out, 27 Dagestanies, including those who had nothing to do with the scuffle, were detained. According to the detainees, they were beaten up in the police department, Nurmagomedova added.

“Today all the detained Dagestanies and Chechens are at large but Yury Garanyan’s real murderer is at large, too”, the representative of the Dagestani Cultural Center concluded and on behalf of the Dagestani community of Sochi suggested that representatives of different communities should meet and discuss the question of peaceful coexistence.

During the meeting on May, 20, representatives of the Dagestani diaspora called for the Dagestanies to ignore provocations on ethnic grounds. About five thousand natives of Dagestan currently reside in Sochi and 15 000 work at the Olympic building sites.