At the Aviapark shopping center in Moscow and at the CSKA metro station on February 24, 226 people were detained, including 188 teenagers, a law enforcement source told TASS. According to the interlocutor of the agency, they were going to start a fight.
“They are representatives of two warring youth movements. Gas cartridges, knives and airsoft guns were confiscated from 37 of them,” the law enforcement agencies said.
Protocols were drawn up against the parents of eight of the detainees under Art. 5.35 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (non-fulfillment of obligations by parents for the maintenance and upbringing of minors).
RIA Novosti, citing a source in law enforcement agencies, reports that on February 24 and 25, more than 350 people were brought to the police in the capital, 319 of them were minors. They may be associated with the youth subculture PMC Ryodan, the source said. According to him, on February 23, several participants in the movement insulted people of non-Slavic appearance during an online broadcast on a Telegram channel. Then a group of teenagers entered the subway, where they got into a fight with other minors at the Lubyanka station. One of the teenagers, a Ryodan follower, was sprayed in the face with a spray can. A criminal case of hooliganism was initiated, charges were brought against three minors. Telegram channels began to call for violence against members of PMC Ryodan.
Most of the teenagers were released, the parents of eleven were brought to administrative responsibility.
PMC is an acronym for “private military company”, “Ryodan” is a reference to the Japanese manga Hunter x Hunter (“Hunter x Hunter”), which refers to the criminal organization “Genei Ryodan” with spiders on the emblem. Followers of this subculture usually wear black clothes with the image of these arthropods.
The Telegram channel Baza wrote that on February 19, a conflict arose between supporters of the subculture and other visitors in the food court at Aviapark. The next day, hundreds of young people came to the Strelka shopping center. After the raids began there, they moved the meeting to the Marcos Mall shopping center. There, the police detained about 20 teenagers.
As Fontanka wrote, more than 150 teenagers were detained in St. Petersburg after a brawl in the Gallery shopping center. One student was injured in the fight. According to the publication, attacked one of the teenagers, who was dressed in black clothes with a picture of a spider. The St. Petersburg Investigative Committee reported that they opened a criminal case under Part 2 of Art. 213 of the Criminal Code (hooliganism) against some violators of public order in the shopping center, because of which several people were injured. Detentions of teenagers associated with PMC Ryodan also took place in other cities.