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Escalating Fascist Terror in Russia

Y'day(8.29) during the course of an assault upon concert-goers in Miass (Chelyabisnk Region, 1400km east of Moscow) hundreds of “bare-chested” boneheads (fascist skinheads) have apparently injured scores and killed a 14-year-old girl(*). Some reports suggest that there may be more victims, but accurate information will be difficult to obtain while the Russian state goes into damage control mode.

AP reported the following:

Scores of bare-chested skinheads attacked a crowd of about 3,000 people at a rock concert in central Russia on Sunday, beating them with clubs, media reports said.

Dozens of people were left bloodied and dazed in the attack, television and news agencies reported, and state news channel Rossiya-24 said a 14-year-old girl was killed at the concert in Miass...

Not surprisingly — or incredibly, if you prefer — some other reports said that the cops stood aside as the boneheads went about their bloody business!

According to local media reports, shooting was also heard as a crowd of angry bare-chested boneheads, armed with batons, sticks and iron rods, forced their way through security cordons.

“Police and security guards were either inactive or ran away. Some attackers snatched truncheons from police officers and started beating the visitors,” the Chelnovosti reported citing eyewitnesses.

Today's Guardian (UK) reported the following:

Skinheads attack crowds at Russian rock festival

About 100 skinheads attacked crowds of revellers at a Russian rock festival yesterday, injuring 19 people, reports in the Russian media say.

The state-run Rossiya 24 television channel showed footage of large groups of bare-chested men with cropped hair running up to the entrance of the Tornado festival in the Urals city of Miass, about 850 miles east of Moscow.

A spokeswoman said local police had no immediate comment on the motive behind the attacks. Six of the 19 victims were taken to hospital.

At least 60 people were killed and 306 injured in hate crimes in Russia last year, according to Sova, a rights group that monitors racist violence in the country. Most were attacks on Muslim migrants from central Asia.

Witnesses at the festival, which was attended by 3,000 people, said some of the men fired gunshots into crowds, Rossiya 24 reported. Footage showed policemen collecting axes and batons belonging to the skinheads.

The Ekho Moskvy radio station said the owner of a local cafe had been detained on suspicion of organising the violence.

Activists in Russia have warned that increasing xenophobia and a corrupt police force are allowing far-right groups to prosper.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/aug/30/skinheads-attack-russian-rock-festival

* According to the Russian Indymedia, "in the attack died from 3 to 7 people, more than 50 people were injured"...
  "Russian state-run news channel Rossiya-24 reported the death of a 14-year-old girl, but the ITAR-TASS news agency quoted police in the Chelyabinsk Oblast as saying no one had died in the violence", according to Radio Free Europe