President Kasym-Zhomart Tokayev said that during the protests in the country, victims among the staff of force structures appeared. The words of the Head of State reports RIA Novosti on Wednesday, January 5th.
Tokayev came up with the appeal to the nation. He stressed that the authorities intend to act as hard to act in relation to the offenders.
previously became known that in Almaty, the Kazakh authorities displeased by the policies took away firearms, batons and shields, after which they began to gather in the city center. It was reported that the police left the streets, no one prevents demonstrators to arm and gather into large groups. Television, Internet and Mobile communications are not working in the city.
Protests in Kazakhstan began on Sunday, January 2, due to the increase in gas prices for cars from 60 to 120 tenge (from 10 to 20 rubles) per liter. Soon, economic requirements were replaced by political: government resignation, holding new elections, consideration of the issue of lustration of people from the “clan” of the former President of Nursultan Nazarbayev.