Detainee was a Fighter of the Ukrainian volunteer battalion "Azov" has confessed that he came to the Peninsula to organize provocations on the day of the deported peoples of the Crimea on may 18, to thereby cause a wave of discontent among the Crimean Tatars, said Vice-Premier of the Crimean government Ruslan Balbec.

About the arrest in the Crimea fighters of a battalion " Azov ", who participated in the armed conflict in the South-East of Ukraine, told on may 1, the public Prosecutor Natalia Poklonskaya. The man was captured and arrested. He is suspected of belonging to the arson of the mosque "Cukurca" in Simferopol and the attempted terrorist attack at the building of the Prosecutor's office of the Republic in the past year.

"The fighter of a battalion "Azov" has confessed to law enforcement that arrived in order to arrange provocations in honor of the date may 18, in order to cause a wave of discontent among the Crimean Tatars, then the International community has received the necessary image that the Crimean Tatar people here are suffering. But the Crimean Tatar people wise, and All these provocations did not react ", - noted the Deputy Prime Minister.

He said that in the Crimea in early may, was also detained a group of Ukrainian nationalists, which was engaged in arson and looting of the Crimean mosques. Deputy Prime Minister expressed gratitude to the security agencies of the Peninsula, who has put a lot of effort to prevent provocations on the day of deportation.

"All these provocations, the most perverse, has not received its continuation. Police most provocation was not even given the opportunity to realize. It was a success for all Crimeans and the Russian Crimea ", - noted the Balbec.

according to his statement, a significant contribution to the maintenance of international peace and calm in the Republic also made by the mufti of Muslims of Crimea Hajji Emirali Ablayev, which holds the creative work, aimed at the unity and mutual assistance between the Crimeans of all nationalities.

On Tuesday, the head of the state Committee for interethnic relations and deported people of Crimea Zaur Smirnov declared that Crimea yesterday, may 18, has made collision with a whole wave of propaganda attacks aimed at destabilizing inter-ethnic situation in the region. Anyway the day of memory of victims of deportation of the Crimean peoples this year for the first time passed without politics and became the day of unity of all peoples of the Peninsula.

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