Following the terrorist attack on the Crocus City Hall concert hall in the Russian capital, Moscow police have set up special teams to carry out additional checks on foreign citizens.
According to Baza, one of the country’s most followed Telegram channels, the groups include police officers and criminal investigators assigned by the governor’s office.
The news item noted that the officers were divided into areas such as hostels, workplaces and motorways, where they would check migrants together with traffic police.
In addition, the Telegram channel 112 reported that the police in Moscow had started organising raids on hostels where migrants live.
According to the information, in the capital’s Tversky district, law enforcement officers raided a hostel on Minayevsky Lane, and operations are underway in several districts.
Earlier it was reported that in Moscow the hotel where the terrorists who organised the Crocus attack were staying was searched.