At least 80 people have been detained following antisemitic riots at an airport in Dagestan, Russia’s Kommersant news site reports.
According to the report, the Sunday incident, in which hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters stormed an airport where a flight from Tel Aviv was landing in order to hunt down Jews, has been handed over to the SKR, Russia’s equivalent of the FBI, for investigation.
Some 150 suspects have been identified, according to the report, and searches are ongoing.
The report notes that police, in an attempt to calm the crowd, appeared at one point to agree to protest leaders boarding the plane to check if there were any Jews aboard, but the plan was scuttled when rioters began shouting “Allahu akbar” and insulting police.
Nine officers were injured, including two who were hospitalized, Kommersant reports.
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