One of the eyewitnesses told TV Rain how the raid unfolded. According to him, it lasted...

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In St. Petersburg, police carried out a raid at Cabaret over suspicions of “LGBT propaganda.” The pro-government Channel 78 and the Telegram channel Baza reported the raid at the club on Razyezzhaya Street. According to them, officers from the Center for Countering Extremism came to Cabaret…

One of the eyewitnesses told TV Rain how the raid unfolded. According to him, it lasted from one in the morning until six, and the police were most interested in the venue’s employees. The security forces photographed visitors’ passports and faces, and “took the rowdiest ones to the station.” Some guests were asked to take a drug test.

From Cabaret employees, police tried to find out their attitude toward LGBT people, and asked them to say whether they had seen LGBT people or “men dressed as women” in the club. According to TV Rain’s source, some employees were “forced by threats [to go] to the station and unlock their phones, and their chats were checked.

According to TV Rain’s source, “not a single question [about monkeypox] was asked of anyone,” and after the raid police officers “stole a large amount of premium alcohol from the club.”

One OMON officer walked around the club with a sledgehammer, a Paper reader said. Another eyewitness to the raid told Vot Tak that five police officers beat him, demanding that he hand over his phone and enter the password.

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