OMON came to the Moscow bars Underdog and La Virgen on the evening of Friday, March 17, “in connection with the suspicion that the establishments were involved in financing the armed forces of Ukraine,” the TASS agency reports. According to OVD-Info, security forces came to bars with a sledgehammer and stun guns.
From the same source it is known that about 40 people – both visitors and staff – were detained and taken to the police station in the Basmanny district, where they were interrogated, including by FSB officers. Lawyers were not allowed to see the detainees. Lawyer Konstantin Erokhin published a screenshot of the correspondence in which, presumably, one of the detainees claims that they were beaten and tortured electric shock. Most of the detainees, according to media reports, have already been released.
The SOTA Telegram channel writes that in the Underdog bar, the police played songs by the singer Shaman, the Lube group, as well as Blue Handkerchief and Hey, oh, my horse is a black one. “Mediazona”, referring to an employee of the institution, adds that security forces forced visitors to sing along, threatening them with stun guns. They also asked people with tattoos to undress, and one of the visitors was forced to write write on the door “Z – For Russia”, write Telegram channels. According to them, the riot police left the Underdog bar around 10 pm.
On the pages of institutions in social networks, it was reported about their temporary closure. On the Instagram of the Underdog bar, according to media quotes, it was said: “We will tell all the details later, or you will learn them from friends.” However, the post at this link is now unavailable – it may have been deleted.
In July 2022, the Telegram channel Baza wrotethat “Russian patriots took up arms” against the founders of Underdog and La Virgen because of the charity vinyl record market announced on their social networks in support of the public organization Kyiv Angels, which helps APUdoctors and civilians affected by the war.
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