RIOTS START IN UKRAINIAN CITY OF MARGANETS

/PanARMENIAN.Net/
30.06.2009 16:59 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Riots started after a fight in a cafe of Ukranian
city of Marganets, at which a young police inspector was killed,
representatives of the Armenian community of Dnepropetrovsk
region state. Some of those who took part in the cafe incident were
Armenians. According to community’s lawyer Alla Arakelova, after the
fight large-scale riots stared in city: houses have been burnt, more
than 15 cars have been destroyed. "There are victims, women and elderly
people are among them. Their relatives are now took off to other
cities: Zaporozhye, Krivoy Rog, Dnepropetrovsk," she added. Police
reports, that the situation in Marganets is controlled, and denies
occurrence of incidents after the fight in the cafe. They insist that
it was purely domestic incident. According to the first deputy head of
internal affairs ministry administration of Ukraine in Dnepropetrovsk
region Igor Shovikov, "it was a small conflict, which was localized
in the short term." About two dozen participants of the fight from
both sides have been detained. There is no information if a person
who killed a young police officer is among them. Representatives of
the Armenian community accuse police for inaction. According to them,
police did not intervene in the conflict, and community activists are
going to picket the Regional Prosecutor’s office and the Regional
Department of the Interior. 22 -year-old policeman died from stab
wounds in the city of Manganets. He tried to stop a fight at the
local cafe. Sergeant of the patrol-sentry service was not performing
his duties, he was dressed as a civilian. Another four people were
hospitalized with injuries, tsn.ua reports.