http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6598269.stm - BBC
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2007/04/27/estonia-russia.html - CBC
Here's what really happened.
At 9-10PM,
Crowd of russian people, 3/4 of them came over the border of Estonia, were screaming like "Shame, shame" and "Russia" all the time. So some of the crowd started whacking off and throwing some shit and bottles at the police that caused them to use some necessary force to bump that crowd away from the statue.
When the crowd got down the street, 1/4 of the pople started vandalizing and looting all little shops on the streets, crashing windows and robbing those. They tried to set up some fires on some places too.
Then the some more police showed up and started arresting people that showed out any vandalism.
Police caught 300+ people and they will ALL get punished, since police has all the evidence that they destroyed some shops and stole since they all had some items they took, plus, the city centre of Tallinn is FULL of security cameras which makes it all easier (security cameras are a MUST HAVE in stores since like 2005-2006 by the law).
There were some injured people, but the one who died, got stabbed by some other russian why they were vandalising - probably over some items they had to steal. And yes, some dudes broke in to a store where were women's dresses and underwears. Like wtf?
Police got their job done at 3-4AM in the morning while the russian people had drunk etc.
Most of the people who broke into stores, were russian youths, ages 15-24. The other 3/4 russian people probably thinks now that "man, we embarress ourselves by letting those youths destroy the streets".
Destroying/stealing the shops HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE MEMORIAL REMOVAL and archeological digging.
By 3:40 AM, the government made a sudden move and decided to get rid of the statue right now, and by early morning, it was gone.
I live in a suburbian area, like 6-7 miles away, so nothing has happened directly at my area, although my school was really near the area where all the action was taken, so i saw with my own eye what was the result.
Shame on russian youths. Vandalism doesn't solve the problems at all.
I hope nothing happens tonight.
I just can't get over it. It's just a big STUPIDITY.
I think it's not Russia's deal what happens with some stupid statues on Estonian grass.
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2007/04/27/estonia-russia.html - CBC
Here's what really happened.
At 9-10PM,
Crowd of russian people, 3/4 of them came over the border of Estonia, were screaming like "Shame, shame" and "Russia" all the time. So some of the crowd started whacking off and throwing some shit and bottles at the police that caused them to use some necessary force to bump that crowd away from the statue.
When the crowd got down the street, 1/4 of the pople started vandalizing and looting all little shops on the streets, crashing windows and robbing those. They tried to set up some fires on some places too.
Then the some more police showed up and started arresting people that showed out any vandalism.
Police caught 300+ people and they will ALL get punished, since police has all the evidence that they destroyed some shops and stole since they all had some items they took, plus, the city centre of Tallinn is FULL of security cameras which makes it all easier (security cameras are a MUST HAVE in stores since like 2005-2006 by the law).
There were some injured people, but the one who died, got stabbed by some other russian why they were vandalising - probably over some items they had to steal. And yes, some dudes broke in to a store where were women's dresses and underwears. Like wtf?
Police got their job done at 3-4AM in the morning while the russian people had drunk etc.
Most of the people who broke into stores, were russian youths, ages 15-24. The other 3/4 russian people probably thinks now that "man, we embarress ourselves by letting those youths destroy the streets".
Destroying/stealing the shops HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE MEMORIAL REMOVAL and archeological digging.
By 3:40 AM, the government made a sudden move and decided to get rid of the statue right now, and by early morning, it was gone.
I live in a suburbian area, like 6-7 miles away, so nothing has happened directly at my area, although my school was really near the area where all the action was taken, so i saw with my own eye what was the result.
Shame on russian youths. Vandalism doesn't solve the problems at all.
I hope nothing happens tonight.
I just can't get over it. It's just a big STUPIDITY.
I think it's not Russia's deal what happens with some stupid statues on Estonian grass.
