RUSSIAN COURTS SENTENCE 15 OVER ANTI-ISRAELI AIRPORT RIOT

Wed 01 October 2023:

As many as 15 people who stormed a Russian airport runway and tried to encircle a plane that had flown in from Israel were sentenced to prison by courts on Wednesday (Nov 1).

Courts in Dagestan, a Muslim-majority region, jailed the rioters for between two and ten days for their involvement in the anti-Jewish incident, the TASS news agency reported. Whereas, two more were ordered to complete 60 hours of forced labour.

The incident happened on Sunday when the Red Wing Airlines flight from Tel Aviv landed at Makhachkala Uytash Airport around 7 pm (local time).

Soon a mob of angry crowd holding Palestinian flags surrounded the plane.

Chanted anti-Jewish slogans

The airport was temporarily closed and flights were diverted, a statement from the Russian Federal Air Transport Agency said.

Authorities said at least 20 people were injured and 60 people were detained. Many Jewish leaders condemned the incident, likening the incident to Tsar-era pogroms.

On Tuesday, a prominent rabbi in Russia, Boruch Gorin, slammed the Russian authorities over the antisemetic riots calling the incident an “eternal disgrace.”

Dagestan’s Governor Sergei Melikov called Sunday night’s violence a “gross violation of the law” and a “stab in the back” of Dagestani soldiers fighting in Ukraine.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and other officials have claimed that Ukraine and the West were behind the calls to riot, while Kyiv said the violence was a symptom of Russia’s “deep-rooted anti-semitism.”

SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES

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