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Musical conductor beaten in St. Petersburg


A Chinese citizen was beaten last weekend in an underground crossing at metro station �Sadoyaya�. According to law enforcement agencies, the Chinese musician and working director from a foreign theater had arrived in St. Petersburg a few days earlier on a tourist visa, called the police to say that while walking in an underground crossing late in the evening he was beaten by a group of young people.

The victim was hospitalized with a fractured nose and at this time his heath is not in danger.

A criminal case has been opened according to article 112, part 2 �YK� (�intent to injure a to a significant degree�).

The Administration of Internal Affairs (UVD) did not exclude �nationalist, racist, or religious hostility� as possibilities for the beating.



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