2023-10-29 21:06:16
The tarmac and terminal of Makhatchakala airport, capital of the Russian republic of Dagestan, were stormed by several dozen men on Sunday, October 29 in the evening, upon the announcement that a plane coming from ‘Israel was to land there.
According to the Izvestia and RT media, they burst onto the roof of the airport and onto the tarmac. Videos posted on Telegram show dozens of men breaking down barriers, trying to control cars leaving the airport or breaking down doors within the terminal. One of the videos shows a man posted on one of the wings of a Russian Red Wings plane.
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According to the specialized site Flightradar, a flight from this company from Tel Aviv landed at 7 p.m. local time (4 p.m. GMT) in Makhchkala. According to the independent Russian media Sota, it was a transit flight which was due to take off again towards Moscow at 9 p.m. (7 p.m. GMT).
Avoid “provocations”
Before entering the terminal, several demonstrators also attempted to check the passports of people leaving the airport in search of Israeli citizens. One of them could be seen holding a sign: “Child killers have no place in Dagestan” and others shouted “Allah Akbar” on these videos.
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The Minister of Information of Chechnya, the neighboring republic, Akhmed Dudayev, had called earlier in the day on Telegram for calm in the face of rising tensions in the Russian Caucasus, and to avoid « provocations ». Attacks targeting Jews “will play into the hands of our enemies who deliberately provoke the world in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict”he said in a video.
Chechnya and Dagestan are two unstable republics in Russia whose populations are predominantly Muslim.
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