26 May 2007, 18:54
Criminal case initiated on mass fight in Stavropol
In the city of Stavropol, in the evening of May 24, a mass fight burst out near one of the casinos, in which, by different sources, from 100 to 300 young people took part. As a result of the fight, Gilani Ataev, a 2-year law student of the Modern Humanities Academy, was killed, and another student - Zaurbek Akhmatov - was taken to hospital with a gunshot wound. By different sources, some 3-7 persons were wounded.
The collision on May 24 in Stavropol between Chechen and Stavropol students had nothing to do with the national factor, and every attempt to expose it as such will be stopped. The statement of this sort, according to the information of the IA Regnum, was made on May 25 in Grozny by Nurdi Nukhazhiev, Ombudsman for the Chechen Republic.
The Committee of the Stavropol Territory for the Matters of Nationalities and Cossacks has also emphasized that the conflict had no interethnic origin.
The conflict between the slashers had started a couple of days before on an everyday pretext and reached its peak in the evening of May 24, the Russian News Service informs.
On May 25, the Public Prosecutor's Office of the Promyshlenny District of the city of Stavropol initiated a criminal case on the fact of the incident under Articles of "intended infliction of gross harm to one's health that has entailed the death of the victim by imprudence" and "hooliganism."
Today, under Articles 91 and 92 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Russian Federation, two persons have been detained on suspicion of committing crimes under the opened criminal case. Some participants of hooligan actions were detained in the administrative order.
