STAVROPOL. Jan 10 (Interfax) - The Georgiyevsky City Court of the Stavropol Territory has handed down sentences to four residents of the Republic of Dagestan in the case involving riots at the Makhachkala airport in October 2023, the press service for the region's prosecutors said.
According to the press service's release, Marat Rabadanov, Radzhab Radzhabov, Magomed Ramazanov, and Zaurbeg Khalikov have been found guilty of participation in mass riots accompanied by violence, devastation, destruction of property, use of object posing danger to people around them, and also putting up armed resistance to authorities. They have also been found guilty of failure to fulfill the transport security requirements on transport infrastructure facilities and transport, bearing in mind that this action led by negligence of massive damage and was committed by a group of persons by previous concert.
The court sentenced each man to 10 years in a general-security colony, the press service said.
In the evening of October 29, 2023, the Federal Agency for Air Transport (Rosaviatsiya) reported temporary closure of the Makhachkala airport to incoming and departing flights due to the entry of unknown persons. A crown of people was looking for the passengers who had arrived on a flight from Tel Aviv to Makhachkala. The property of the airport worth more than 24 million rubles was destroyed and damaged. Illegal actions were taken on 30 represendtatives of the authorities, 23 of them were hurt.
The trials of the riot participants were transferred from Dagestan to the Krasnodar and Stavropol Territory. A total of 38 people (including those convicted by the Georgiyevsky court) had been earlier convicted in the Krasnodar Territory and the Stavropol Territory since August 2024, they received 4.5 years to 10 years in prison. The Prosecutor General's office said 28 cases against 134 participants had been sent to courts.
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