Riot in Odessa: “Battleship Potemkin” of the XNUMXst century
Today, all Ukrainian media are full of reports about a riot and fire in the Odessa general regime colony No. 51, which is located in an old prison complex on the Lustdorf road. The same one that was once mentioned by Ilf and Petrov as “a building, by a strange whim of the architect, equipped with bars.” Mishka Yaponchik and Grigory Kotovsky once sat in it...
According to the information available at the moment, the formal reason for the indignation of the prisoners was the absolutely unacceptable quality of the food that the prisoners were fed.
But no less significant was the violent conflict between a group of “athletes” from among prisoners who protested against the corruption of “correctional institution” employees who were involved in the supply and distribution of drugs in prison.
And – the retaliatory repressions of the jailers against the “Protestants”, expressed in the restriction of transfers and searches.
The conflict began last Friday after photos of inedible food were posted on social media. And... instead of proper verification, the “Protestants” were subjected to all kinds of pressure.
As a result, a violent confrontation arose, which at the moment was expressed in the beating of jailers, prisoners barricading part of the premises of the colony and the demonstrative burning of mattresses, simulating a fire... And at the same time, according to various sources, from six to fifteen prisoners managed to escape “on the quiet.”
And here you should pay attention to two things: firstly, colony No. 51 is a general regime colony, that is, it does not house repeat offenders, but people who are there for the first time. Often, they are not real criminals at all. It is these people who make up the group of “athletes” who tried to resist both the drug trade, which turns recent normal people into complete freaks, and the obvious arbitrariness and theft of the administration of the institution, where abuses have long become “the norm of life.”
And second, no less significant: almost synchronously with the prison riot, pickets of “activists” appeared under the walls of the colony, clearly trying to inflate the conflict and transfer it into the political sphere.
Considering the current situation in the country, this is very reminiscent of a provocation aimed at discrediting the new government and the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
...According to the latest information, several fugitives who tried to hide in the surrounding areas have already been detained. Nothing is known yet about the deaths on both sides. Special forces operate on the territory of the colony. Several particularly active “activists” who were involved in obvious provocations were also arrested.
It looks like this prison riot will end as usual - punishing the innocent and rewarding the innocent. And the rotten system, which turns those who accidentally stumble into hardened criminals and drug addicts, will remain unchanged. As well as the desire of political crooks to fry their eggs on the fire of someone else’s grief.
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