23:59, 18 June 2020

Six members of Chechen Diaspora detained after riots in Dijon

Clashes in Dijon. Screenshot of the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1mO7utCDbo

In France, the police detained six suspected participants of the conflict between the Chechen and Maghreb communities. The suspects are accused of an attempted murder in an organized grouping and participation in an armed formation, the "Europe 1" reports.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on June 14, in the French city of Dijon, at least ten people were injured as a result of the conflict between members of the Chechen Diaspora and local residents of Arab origin. On June 16, members of the Maghreb and Chechen communities agreed on a truce.

The conflict was triggered by a beating on June 10 of a 16-year-old teenager from the Chechen community by drug dealers, the newspaper "Le Figaro" reported. After that, calls for revenge appeared on social networks.

Earlier, Dijon prosecutor Eric Mathias has stated that clashes were of racist nature and directed against "people from the Maghreb" (North Africa). Natives of Chechnya declared the absence of interethnic contradictions with migrants from the Maghreb and pointed to the problem of drug trafficking unsolved by the French authorities.

This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on June 18, 2020 at 06:42 pm MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.