March 27, the editorial office of Tula news celebrates the 13th anniversary. Over the years, the publication correspondents more than once became parties to the hottest events: a shootout in the city center, resonant cases of corruption, journalistic investigations, meetings with the president, reports about amazing people and news, scattered from Tula around the world. During the week, we propose to recall the most vivid stories together.
Gypsy riot
Yes, the modern Tula story knows that ... And the correspondents of the "Tula news", as usual, were "on the front basis" and promptly reported what was happening.
On the evening of March 15, 2016, about 400 houses of the village of Plekhanovo remained without gas and heating. When the next day, the employees of the gas service and journalists arrived in the morning of the next day, which would seek the ordinary accident, they met an aggressively tuned crowd from about hundreds of representatives of the local Gypsy Diaspora armed with stones and sticks. They broke the glass in the machines
Gas workers, got a stone in the back of the journalist, shouted and threatened to send curses. To curb the riots on the alarm sent the police and fighters riot police. The police were thrown with sticks with sticks, cobblestones flew.
In such a non-standard way, Roma tried to hide the cause of a communal accident: water came to the gas pipes when an attempt by unauthorized connection to the gas pipeline. It turned out that this attempt was far from the only one.
Plekhanovsky Tabor is the largest in Russia. According to some data, it has about 2,500 members. According to local residents, Roma for many years illegally connect their homes to the gas pipeline and are heated free of charge with blue fuel, and other residents pay for it. As it turned out later, not only the insertion, but also a part of the Gypsy houses was built illegally.
The next day, a whole special operation was launched in the village: about semi-second law enforcement officers hooked the territory, in masks and with shields, ensuring the safety of gas workers, whose task was to eliminate illegal sings.
Tabor did not descend. Women shouted, fell on her knees, men tried to break through the chatter around the repairmen. This time they did not ceremony and instantly detained.
Later, representatives of the Tula authorities and the Tabor discussed the situation at the negotiating table. Illegal connections were eliminated, the gypsies were given time for leaking residential buildings. Houses of those who did not want to do this were demolished.