DUSHANBE, July 2, 2013, Asia-Plus – Tajik Embassy in Moscow has expressed serious concern about an illegal raid made on a migrant workers’ dormitory in Moscow.

Muhammad Egamzod, an official representative of Tajik Embassy in Moscow, says a group of young men, representing the public association “Shchit Moskvy” (The Shield of Moscow), in masks and armed with pistols and tear gas sprays burst into the migrant workers’ dormitory, in which mainly labor migrants from Central Asia, including Tajikistan, live (the majority of them work as street cleaners), on June 28 and made the labor migrants go out, stating that they stay in Russia illegally.

On July 1, representatives of the Tajik Embassy met with senior officers of the police station in Yuzhnoye Tushino to find out more about the incident. “The police station in Yuzhnoye Tushino is probing the raid on migrant workers, Egamzod noted.

“Such raids can be made only by relevant government bodies, law enforcement agencies and Russia’s federal Migration Service (FMS), but not a group of young men, who have imagined themselves as controlling body,” said Egamzod.  “Such incidents may lead to skirmishes and mass disorders that do not comply with the Russian authorities attempt to maintain social and political stability in Moscow ahead of Moscow’s mayoral elections.”