Detained in the Kazakh city of Shymkent The participants of the mass riots said that money and energy drinks were handed out for the attacks on the security forces and looting, from which the control was lost. This is reported by TASS with reference to the deputy head of the local administration of Schyngs Mukan.
It does not indicate names or organizations where potential provocateurs could consist and did not lead other details of the incident. The amounts issued by the participants of the pogroms were also not named.
Earlier it became known that in Kazakhstan, Mrauders killed the famous Kazakh director and the musician Sacken Bitayev (Salamec Staff). Participants of the riots tried to take away the car from him when Rapper tried to leave – shot.
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.
To Wednesday, January 5, rallies have grown into bulk riots. In Alma-Ata, shops, banks were plundered, captured by the airport building, police plots, government agencies and infrastructure facilities. Army was sent to suppressing speeches. President Kasym-Zhomart Tokayev appealed to the CSTO with a request to send troops to protect the country from armed gangs.