Village of Bachi-Yurt cordoned off, residents of Chechnya report

In the Chechen village of Bachi-Yurt, law enforcers are searching for a person, who set fire to a banner with a portrait of one of the family members of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov. This was reported by local residents. According to them, the village has been blocked by armed men from all sides.

This morning, the village of Bachi-Yurt has been cordoned off by law enforcers and blocked. This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by a local resident, a staff member of one of the public institutions of Chechnya, who preferred to remain anonymous.

"All the entrances and exits of the village have been blocked by law enforcers from the very morning. Last night, vandals have burned a banner either with a portrait of Ramzan or his mother hanging in the village. They do not let anyone in or out of the village. They say, until they find the guilty persons, the village will not be opened. We have no idea who could commit that, especially against the background of the arson of the ziyart in Kurchaloi and the fate of the arsonists," the local resident has noted.

On November 16, in the village of Kurchaloi, the ziyart (mausoleum) of Saint Yangulbi-Sheikh was set on fire. Shamil Ergiev, Djabrail Usumov, Islam Yunusov, and Khamzat Uspaev, residents of the village of Mairtup, were detained on suspicion of committing the arson. The young men were transported from village to village, where local residents subjected them to public reprimand.

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