Brawl with foreigners: Man transporting riot participants detained

Law enforcers detained a 25-year-old man, who participated in a fight with foreigners. The press service of the Ministry of internal Affairs reported.

After a night of riots, a video was posted on social media, on which the guy enters the room with foreigners and beats them. Having studied the recordings from the cameras, law enforcers found a cargo van on which this man and several other attackers came to the house, where the foreigners lived, and shot a video of the beating.

The owner of the van turned out to be 25-year-old J.A., who works in a furniture workshop. He was detained.

The man told that the incident occurred on May 18 at about 4 a.m. He and three other people came to the house in the area of Dordoi market, where foreigners lived, and beat up them. He also drove people to other hostels. He was placed in the pretrial detention center of the Main Department of Internal Affairs. Work is underway to identify other persons involved in the beating of foreigners.

A spontaneous protest against foreigners, which began in the evening of May 17 in Bishkek, ended only in the morning of May 18. The police managed to come to an agreement with the protesters, and they opened Chui Avenue, and dispersed a little later. According to the Ministry of Health, 41 victims sought medical help as a result of the mass brawl with foreigners in Bishkek.

Following a fight on May 13 in a hostel, which was one of the reasons for the protests, the police detained four citizens of Egypt; they were later placed under house arrest. A criminal case was initiated under the article «Hooliganism» of the Criminal Code of the Kyrgyz Republic. The suspects in the attack on foreign citizens in the hostel on Ogonbaev Street were detained.