In Moscow, FSPE employees seized six apartments of refugees from Caucasus

On June 24, employees of the Federal Service for Punishment Enforcement (FSPE) stormed and seized six apartments in the hostel located in the Yasny Proezd in Moscow, where families of refugees from Azerbaijan and Abkhazia lived. As of today's midnight, the situation remains strained - several dozens of FSPE employees are still in the building, and tenants are afraid that the storm of apartments can be continued.

At 11:30 p.m. the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about the course of events by telephone by Irina Bergalieva, head of the Movement of Hostels of Moscow and Moscow Region, who also lives in the hostel in the Yasny Proezd.

After the court marshals left the house in the afternoon, the prison special fighters broke and took away the doors of five apartments in the second floor and one in the third floor. "The tenants of these apartments are morally suppressed and are gradually freeing the rooms and take their things out, although we persuaded them to stay in their apartments until they drag them out on hands," Ms Bergalieva said.

In the first floor of the building, hostel tenants and activists of public organizations are still on duty ready to defend the refugees' families against a new storm on the apartments.

"The FSPE workers have no powers to take such actions; their duty is to guard prisons, not to evict people out of their apartments, especially without any documents. This is pure banditism," said Mikhail Doronenko, coordinator of the Movement of Hostels of Moscow and Moscow Region, who was also present in No. 19 Yasny Proezd on June 24.

Yesterday, during the attempt of FSPE employees to oust refugees from Abkhazia and Azerbaijan out of the hostel situated in the Yasny Proezd of Moscow, two persons were beaten.