07 June 2006, 21:42
Power authorities held mass checks in the capital of Chechnya
On June 6, officers of the local power authorities carried out wide-scale checks of passports in the October district of the Chechen capital.
As residents of the Chechen capital report, in the morning of June 6, the power authorities arranged check-points at highways and in some streets of the October district if Grozny. All transport facilities, including passenger buses and shuttle service taxis, were subjected to careful checks.
"In the morning, militiamen arranged check-points near the ring road, in the vicinity of "Okruzhnaya," 8 March Street and section 30 of the district, says Khas-Magomed Dabaev, a 47 year-old resident of October district of Grozny. They stopped all cars and checked documents of people. No one explained what the reason was."
"My car was also checked, they inspected the luggage rack and the salon, and let me proceed. People say that near the "Minutka" square, after such check, they took off two young people from a "marshrutka" (shuttle service taxi) and escorted them somewhere. Nobody knows, why they were detained," claimed our interlocutor.
The Chechnya MIA reported that the power authorities operations are "planned" and aimed at "identification and detention of persons involved in committing crimes, members of armed bands and their accomplices."
Author: Sultan Abubakarov, CK correspondent
