Moscow Race Riots: Police Arrest 1,200 In Raid

Police have arrested 1,200 people at a Moscow vegetable warehouse in pre-emptive raids following riots there on Sunday.

The disturbances erupted after a native Russian was stabbed to death on Thursday night. His death was blamed by the protesters on a migrant from the north Caucasus, a region in southern Russia.

Natives of the Caucasus, most of whom are Muslims with dark complexions, often work in shopping centres and at vegetable markets in the Russian capital.

Protesters had claimed CCTV pictures showed the killer to be Caucasian

After seeing unidentified CCTV pictures, the protesters believed a dark-skinned Caucasian killed 25-year-old Yegor Shcherbakov in a dispute over his girlfriend as the couple returned home on Thursday.

Demonstrators chanting 'White Power' and 'Russia Forward' vandalised shops and market stalls in the district of Biryulovo on the southern outskirts of Moscow.

Police arrested at least 200 of the protesters on Sunday before launching dawn raids on the vegetable warehouse on Monday morning.

Moscow police spokesman Andrei Galiakberov said on television that they are investigating some of the detainees for possible criminal connections.

Police also said that they found a car full of cash and unlicensed arms on the premises.

President Vladimir Putin said earlier this month that Russia needed migrant labourers in industries such as construction, but - in a nod to anti-migrant sentiment - suggested their numbers could be restricted in other sectors, including trade.

Growing nationalism among ethnic Russians combined with an influx of workers from former Soviet republics has led to increased tensions between native Muscovites and migrants.

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