Spread-eagled against the wall and marched off single-file: How Russia deals with illegal immigrants

No nonsense: Immigration officers and police yesterday raided Teply Stan market in Moscow looking for illegal immigrants . This man was spread-eagled against a police bus

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Date: Friday, 2-Aug-2013 10:55:55

Forced to march in a human chain and lined up with hands behind their heads, this is how to round up illegal immigrants Russian-style. Moscow police launched a no-nonsense crackdown on suspected illegals working on stalls in a market. Officers prodded suspects with batons and pinned them against police vans as searches were carried out. Others were forced to keep their arms in the air while police looked for documents – or a lack of them. The suspects were then frog-marched on to a police bus with their hands on the shoulders of the person in front, and driven away from the Teply Stan market to face a rapid expulsion from the country. his week’s Moscow operation was one of a string of raids on Russian markets which have rounded up more than 1,000 suspected illegals, mostly from Central Asia and former Soviet states such as Belarus and Kazakhstan. It follows an alleged attack on a policeman by two fruit sellers at one market, according to the Moscow Times. And anger over illegal immigration is such that nationalists armed with baseball bats demanded to see market vendors’ paperwork in an incident in St Petersburg. Dmitry Demidenko, of the Russian Federal Migration Service, said: ‘Some 11,193,289 immigrants are living in Russia, and 3.76million of them live here illegally. ‘We are searching for them and expel from the country as we find them.                  Read more here : http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2381878/How-Russia-deals-illegal-immigrants.html#ixzz2apUKHZiU