The head of the press service of the courts of St. Petersburg, Daria Lebedeva, reported that during this week, from March 25 to 29, the city made decisions on administrative deportation 466 people.
Of these, 418 foreigners were assigned “forced deportation” with placement in custody, in CVSIG, and 48 people were given “controlled independent departure” from the country within five days after the court decision entered into force.< /p>
In total, the courts received 584 protocols against foreigners under the article on violation of migration legislation (18.8 Code of Administrative Offenses), of which 515 were considered.
Nine people were arrested as part of the investigation into the Crocus City Hall terrorist attack, which killed at least 144 people. Four alleged participants in the attack, citizens of Tajikistan, were brought to court by FSB officers with signs of torture.
Attacks, dismissals and sidelong glances. Human rights activists and researchers talk about street violence and xenophobia after the terrorist attack in Crocus
After the terrorist attack, reports appeared on social networks about attacks on migrants and representatives of national republics as “revenge” for Crocus. The Ministry of Labor of Tajikistan reported the beginning of the outflow of the country's citizens from Russia after the terrorist attack and cases of harassment of Tajik citizens at the everyday level.
Russian security forces began to conduct massive raids and document checks on foreigners. A lawyer for the human rights organization “First Department” from St. Petersburg said that in the city “there are raids on dormitories and apartments”, and “you can’t approach the TsVSIG” because “there is a lot of special equipment and buses around to go to the airport.”
< p>The St. Petersburg police also reported a “large-scale preventive raid” at the entrances to the city on March 29. As a result of the raid, the documents of “almost 1.5 thousand foreign citizens” were checked, “about 300” protocols were drawn up under articles of violation of traffic rules and migration legislation, and “about 10 criminal cases were initiated, mainly on thefts and forgery of documents.”