By empty (11/7/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
A group of drunken skinheads allegedly broke into the home of an ethnic Azeri family in a small city in Moscow Oblast and kidnapped their 2-1/2-year-old child. The youths have been arrested and the baby was recovered unharmed. An Interior Ministry spokesman told ITAR-TASS that this was not the first time that extremist youths have attacked people from the Caucasus.
A group of drunken skinheads allegedly broke into the home of an ethnic Azeri family in a small city in Moscow Oblast and kidnapped their 2-1/2-year-old child. The youths have been arrested and the baby was recovered unharmed. An Interior Ministry spokesman told ITAR-TASS that this was not the first time that extremist youths have attacked people from the Caucasus. Meanwhile, in Volgograd, the trial of a group of eight alleged skinheads accused of killing three people from Uzbekistan and Tajikistan opened on 6 November, but was postponed until 11 June, polit.ru reported. The killings were committed last year. Eleven youths were involved in the incident, and three were charged with hooliganism. (RFE/RL)