July 3, 2006 - 14:42 AMT
Suspect of Armed Attacked against Armenians at Moscow Metro Arrested
Law-enforcement bodies of Moscow have arrested a resident of Lipetsk, 24, who is suspected in armed attack against two natives of Armenia. At the same time the Moscow Office of the Public Prosecutor has re-qualified the criminal case, filed on the fact of the fight, into the article «Provoking national hatred.» The fight, in which two Armenians got knife injuries, took place at Kuznetsky Most metro station last Saturday. The capital's Office of the Public Prosecutor first considered the incident as «hooliganism,» instituting proceedings in compliance with the respective article of the Criminal Code, reports Lenta.ru.