Owner of Chechen cuisine cafe links arson to "Russian community"
A Chechen cuisine cafe in Ramenskoye, Moscow Region, burned down completely; a video recording captured the moment when an unknown person ran away from the building immediately after the fire. The owner of the establishment believes that the "Russian Community" was involved in the arson and demands that the perpetrators be held accountable.
A video of the fire in the "Chechen Kitchen 95" cafe in Ramenskoye, Moscow Region, was published today by the "ChP Grozny 95" Telegram channel. As follows from the video recording, the fire first flared up near the door of the establishment, then a person quickly ran away from it, and the fire flared up brightly at that moment. After the fire, the cafe burned down almost completely, according to the video recording.
"The owners are sure that the arsonist is connected with the group "Russian Community", which has previously committed similar attacks on Chechens, - the publication says.
Witnesses told the publication about the fire. "We heard the noise and then saw the smoke. It all happened so quickly that no one had time to do anything. Firefighters arrived, but the cafe was already completely on fire," said Aslan, an employee of a nearby store.
The unknown person quickly left the scene, confirmed local resident Andrey. "I noticed someone walking away from the cafe, and a minute later there was already smoke. I don’t know who it was, but it looked suspicious,” he said.
This is not just hooliganism. They have tried to intimidate us more than once, and now it has come to the point that our business has been destroyed. We want justice
The owners of the establishment are sure that the “Russian Community” was involved in the arson, since this is not the first time their business has been targeted. They have previously faced threats and conflicts that they believe are related to the same group. “We know who did this. This is not just hooliganism. They have tried to intimidate us more than once, and now it has come to the point that our business has been destroyed. "We want justice," said the owner of the establishment, Murad.
In his opinion, the investigation is dragging on. "We have provided everything we have: video, witness statements. But so far, no news. We have not lost hope, but we want this case to be brought to an end," Murad said.
Fire service employees confirmed that the fire started due to external influence. Experts rule out accidental causes, such as faulty wiring, and are leaning towards the version of deliberate arson. The investigation is ongoing, but specific suspects have not yet been named, the article says.
As "Kavkazsky Uzel" reported, residents of the Lyublino district of Moscow filmed a video in which they stated that representatives of the "Russian Community" tried to illegally detain Chechen children. Women stood up for the children, and the police were called. On June 20, a video was published in which representatives of the "Russian Community", hiding their faces, stated that they did not use unacceptable methods against children in Lyublino, but faced aggression from local residents and threats on social networks. In the video, recorded before the conflict with the Chechen women, representatives of the "Russian Community" demanded an apology from a young man for performing lezginka with his sister in the courtyard of a Moscow residential complex: the guy apologized, but they were not allowed to leave until the police arrived. The Chechen teenagers were not involved in the conflict, but became witnesses to it. After the incident, Telegram users asked what nationality the couple who danced the lezginka was. "We are not Chechens. "Tatars-Azerbaijanis," replied a girl with the nickname Aygul, who said that she had made these recordings and was dancing the lezginka with her brother. Later, the accounts of Aygul and her brother were deleted.
On June 19, Chechen pop-MMA fighter Ibragim Islamov called on representatives of the "Russian Community" who participated in the incident with Chechen children and women in Lyublino to meet with him. Islamov assured his supporters that "the guilty ones admit their mistake." Representatives of the "Russian Community" acted legally in Lyublino, but they themselves became victims of a provocation, the coordinator of the movement said on June 22, without responding to Islamov's call. Representatives of the "Russian Community" inadequately responded to the lezginka in Lyublino, showing xenophobic installations, analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.
At the same time, representatives of the "Russian Community" can avoid liability. Before the police arrived, representatives of the "Russian Community" had no legal grounds to force the lezginka performers in the courtyard of a Moscow residential complex to do anything, but their actions can hardly be classified under a specific article, the lawyer explained.
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