Union of Councils for Soviet Jews: Rostov Police Stop Skinheads From Firebombing Foreign Student Dorm

Police in Rostov prevented local skinheads from firebombing a foreign student dorm, according to a November 24, 2005 report in the local newspaper Vecherny Rostov. Six skinheads were detained by police as they gathered near the dorm on November 19 armed with Molotov cocktails. All are students at other technical schools and colleges. Charges of “terrorism” have been filed against the skinheads. A local police colonel was quoted in the article complaining about the passivity of university rectors who have neo-Nazis within their student bodies. “Police officials inform rectors about students who belong to extremist gangs… but rectors for some reason don’t rush to tell us about their students. Didn’t anybody at the Rostov college see that three students [who were among those detained by police] were wearing swastika head bands?”