Police Move In On Anarchists
The St. Petersburg Times
Law enforcement authorities have carried out a number of searches in the apartments of St. Petersburg Anarchists’ League members, Fontanka.ru reported Thursday. One of the anarchists, Pyotr Raush, on Tuesday barricaded himself in his apartment, preventing the police from entering the premises, the St. Petersburg-based news service reported. According to Fontanka.ru, the police have searched the address where Raush is registered and have surrounded the house where Raush currently lives. “The first search happened early Tuesday morning in the appartment where I am registered,” Raush told Fontanka.ru. “My friends are living there at the moment. The police came at six in the morning, woke everyone up, and searched for something. As a result they took away a kitchen knife…On the same day they carried out a search in the apartment of one of my friends. Then they came to the apartment where I live now and from time to time have put guards outside my windows.” The anarchists relate the searches to a Dec. 3 fight between nationalists and antifascists, where members of each side were injured, the news service reported. The brawl took place on the corner of Ulitsa Rubinshteina and Grafsky Pereulok in central St. Petersburg. Raush told Fontanka that it was “appalling” that law enforcement agencies are trying to find the people responsible for the incident — “people who attacked peaceful marchers” — among those who were the victims of the nationalists themselves. “Attacks on antifascists are not investigated anyhow, but when one of the right-wing radicals got injured, they try to pin this on our comrades,” he said.
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