A court in southern Russia sentenced four men to 10 years in prison on Wednesday for participating in an Antiisraeli riot at an airport in the Republic of Daguestán more than a year ago.
The men were among the approximately 1,200 people who broke into the Makhachkala International Airport on October 29, 2023, after the rumors on social networks that a flight that arrived from Tel Aviv transported Jewish and Israeli passengers.
The authorities imprisoned at least 105 people after the riot, which exploded in the midst of anger in the northern region of the Cáucaso de Russia about the Israel War against Hamas in Gaza.
The four men, Arsen Arbuliyev, Malik Aliyev, Saidpandi Abdulazizov and Nazhmudin Abakarov, were declared guilty of participating in mass disturbances and violating the transport security rules, said the Office of the Stavropol regional prosecutor.
The Court of the City of Mineralovodsky gave each of them a 10 -year sentence to be delivered in a medium security prison, citing the “nature and degree of public danger” or its actions.
The non -specific authorities The individual roles of the accused in the riots, but said that the disturbances caused more than 24 million rubles ($ 286,000) in damages and injured 23 officials responsible for enforcing the law.
The judgments were transferred from Daguestán to the courts in the nearby regions of Stavropol and Krasnodar due to the sensitivity of the case.
The authorities have issued orders of trial for seven most presumed uproar, including three accused of organizing the attack, according to the Interfax news agency.
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