Dozens of individuals were detained after clashes in Yevpatoria, in Russian-annexed Ukrainian Crimea, on the night of September 22. Police fired shots into the air to stop the rioters and arrested 58 people as a result of the disturbances. Law enforcement reportedly found small arms on some of the detained individuals (Interfax, September 22). One resident of Crimea was diagnosed with heavy injuries after being beaten up by a group of Chechens. The authorities avoided calling out the ethnic identities of the detained individuals but launched a criminal investigation against a 31-year-old man who reportedly arrived in Crimea from the North Caucasus. Among others, Murad Saidov, the assistant to the representative of the governor of the Chechen Republic in the Republic of Crimea, was summoned to the police station in the Crimean town of Saki. The news agency’s sources alleged that Saidov arrived at the station in a black Mercedes and defiantly left it parked in the middle of a crosswalk. According to news coverage, Saidov also ended up arrested (Podyom, September 24).
