In Dagestan, they reported that 242 participants in the pogrom at Makhachkala airport were brought to administrative responsibility. Interfax reports this with reference to the head of the press service of the Supreme Court of Dagestan, Zarema Mamaeva.
“Of these, 104 offenders were given administrative arrest from 1 to 10 days, and 94 were given an administrative fine from 3 thousand to 10 thousand. thousand rubles, 42 were assigned to mandatory labor, proceedings were stopped against two persons,” the news agency quotes Mamaeva as saying.
On the websites of the district courts of Dagestan, “Mediazona” from the beginning of the pogrom on October 29 to December 1 found information about 619 unique protocols under the article on violation of the rules for holding public events (20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offences) and another 20 — under the traditionally “rally” article on the organization of mass simultaneous presence of citizens in public places (20.2.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). These protocols have continued to arrive in the courts for five weeks; in the last week of November alone, 53 new protocols appeared.
On the evening of October 29, hundreds of Dagestan residents gathered at the Makhachkala airport waiting for a flight from Israel. Carrying Palestinian flags, they forced their way into the building and then onto the runway in search of Jews. The Russian authorities accused Telegram channels that may be connected with Ukraine and Western countries of inciting the pogrom.
Later, because of the pogrom, the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case for mass riots (Article 212.1 of the Criminal Code), and arrests were made based on it dozens of people. The Dagestan Public Monitoring Commission reported 126 defendants in the case who are already in pre-trial detention.