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Wanneer: 10/08/2013 - 12:12

07.08.2013 in Moscow in front of the Federal Migration Service, a series of pickets against the concentration camps for immigrants, reports the correspondent Grani.ru. The initiator of the campaign was the organization of liberal communists Autonomous Operation. The picketing was attended by about 10 people. Participants went Poster: People are not illegal!, Ethnic cleansing - pre-election PR!, Migration is not a "problem", and the right - fascism is the problem!.

Employees FSM aggressively responded to the actions of activists and asked them provocative questions, particularly interested in the fact of how much they paid for. However, there were no unpleasant incidents. No one stopped.

In a statement, the organizers noted that all candidates for mayor (including the opposition) use in their campaigns cheap populist tactics, trying to impress the Muscovites, saying loudly that their problems can not be solved without limitation the rights to illegal immigrants.

August 1 in Golianowie, east of Moscow, opened a concentration camp for migrants. Along with illegal immigrants live there also those legal. The number of inhabitants of the camp is estimated at 1,000 people. The representative of the Embassy of Vietnam in Moscow Le Hong Truong called the conditions of detention of migrants as inhumane. Meanwhile, one of the candidates for mayor of Moscow has proposed cutting diet of concentration camp prisoners, in order to reduce the cost of living and the use of public works to Moscow and Muscovites.

On Monday, officers FSM reported that by the end of the year in Russia will operate 43 centers for illegal migrants. At present, in the country there are 21 such institutions-that is, that in the remaining five months, the number will more than double. As it turned out, earlier in the day, the FSM has prepared a draft bill for setting up in Russia 83 new camps for illegal migrants.

http://grani.ru/