Participants of horse march Moscow – Berlin held over the 70th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War, who were not allowed in Europe, were accused of hooliganism.
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For two days the Russians were held in the temporary detention center of Pinsk city as suspects. On July 10, the Pinsk Inter-District Department of the Investigative Committee filed charged the Russians with hooliganism (Art. 2, Art. 339 of the Criminal Code). Pinsk district prosecutor’s office sanctioned their arrest for two months for a period of preliminary investigation, mypinsk.com reports.
Three drunk Russian citizens, one of them a minor, beat a young man who lives in a dormitory of the Pinsk agro-technological college. The Russians also damaged refrigerator doors and smashed glass vase, the deputy of Pinsk Inter-District Prosecutor Syarhei Haroshka said.
According to him, the local authorities allowed the participants of the horse march to occupy an entire floor in a college dorm after the Cossacks were not allowed into the EU. The guests from Russia came into the guy’s room and beat him. The cause of the fight was allegedly the victim’ relationship with a girl that the Russian Cossacks met on the day of their settlement at the dormitory.
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On July 6, after forty days of travel, the horse march Moscow-Berlin in honor of the 70th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War, reached Brest.
Don Cossacks and students of the Moscow Cossack Sholohov cadet corps (about twenty people) observed a minute of silence in memory of the defenders of the Brest citadel. Brest became the final destination of the horse march. Cossacks will go to the West without horses. As the organizer of the campaign, Pavel Mashchalkov, explained, Polish vet inspection would not let their horses into Europe.
“In general, the campaign went well, they received a warm welcome. But we’ll not be able to bring it to the end unfortunately. Poland would not let us do it. The reason for some incomprehensible. It is ridiculous: we could infect their animals. We are only allowed to go in transit. What’s the reason to bring the horses then? To keep them in Berlin in equestrian club and then take them back? Therefore, the horses were already sent to Moscow,” Pavel Mashchalkov told belta.by. According to him, the Cossacks had all the documents for the horses. “But here, probably, politics played a big role,” he added.
In the night of 16 July, the campaign participants planned to take a bus to cross the Belarusian-Polish border to be in Berlin the next day. There, as planned, they will honor the memory of Soviet soldiers who died and on the same day they will go back.
“The fact is that we have certain obligations. Many towns through which we passed handed us their flags, gave a capsule with the earth from the mass graves so that we buried them in Treptower Park and put there flags for a while. There are icons that we have been given with a request to take them to Germany and back. We must fulfill it. If not for that, the campaign could have been stopped, but today we cannot do otherwise,” said the initiator of the campaign.
The horse march Moscow-Berlin was launched on 30 May at Poklonnaya Hill in Moscow. It was planned that the mission would finish in Treptower Park in Berlin on 19 August. The project is implemented with the support of the Russian Defense Ministry, Interior Ministry, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Federal Customs Service of Russia, the Group of the Russian economic community in Germany, the Russian Research Institute of Horse Breeding.
Three years ago, as the Cossacks on horseback went from Moscow to Paris, the march was timed to the 200th anniversary of the victory in the Patriotic War of 1812.
