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In a coordinated operation, Russian authorities conducted raids on three of Moscow’s largest and most popular nightclubs on Friday night, detaining hundreds of
by mopsi 2y ago
In a coordinated operation, Russian authorities conducted raids on three of Moscow’s largest and most popular nightclubs on Friday night, detaining hundreds of men and taking them to military conscription offices.
According to witnesses, dozens of police vehicles, including paddy wagons, lined up outside the nightclubs as enforcement personnel, accompanied by police K9 units, systematically entered the establishments. Clubgoers described the scene as chaotic, with people being escorted out in groups. The authorities focused their efforts on male patrons, detaining many of them and subsequently transporting them to local military conscription offices. Women, on the other hand, were eventually released after their passports were photographed.
One attendee, who wished to remain anonymous, described the atmosphere inside as tense and surreal. “It was like nothing I’ve ever experienced. They came in and started checking IDs, taking the men away without much explanation. The music stopped, and everyone just froze,” the witness said.
Video from the raid: https://www.threads.net/@opium_hum/post/DDANoVHsojO https://www.threads.net/@opium_hum/post/DDANoVHsojO
- arandomusername 2y agoAny trustworthy source that verifies those men are sent to military conscription offices? I would guess that the video is just another crackdown on LGBTQ, as they have been doing: https://apnews.com/article/russia-lgbtq-crackdown-nightclub-raids-3e18ac20ef7386920a996b66be511ee7 https://apnews.com/article/russia-lgbtq-crackdown-nightclub-...
- mopsi 2y agoOne of the issued draft notices: https://t.me/ostorozhno_novosti/31737 https://t.me/ostorozhno_novosti/31737 Most of such stories are on Telegram, another example: https://t.me/akaloy/7128 https://t.me/akaloy/7128 Human rights activists advise young men to live somewhere else than their official address and to avoid public transportation, because raids at metro stations are commonplace, as the local news report: After the beginning of the autumn call, the police regularly conduct raids in which deviators are identified from military service. Security forces come to the hostels for migrants and warehouses in Moscow and the region, as well as check passengers in the subway. Over the past day, the police conducted raids near the metro station “Electrozavodsk”, and also presented 26 subpoenas to the army in the Krasnogorsk hostel. Auto-translated from: https://msk1.ru/text/incidents/2024/11/01/74285744/ https://msk1.ru/text/incidents/2024/11/01/74285744/