A mob driven by anti-Semitic calls raided the Makhachkala airport and made it to the tarmac searching for Jews on a plane arriving from Tel Aviv.
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In late October 2023, a mob driven by anti-Semitic calls raided the Makhachkala airport where they made it to the tarmac in a search of Jews on board the plane that had arrived from Tel-Aviv.
The Investigative Committee of Dagestan has opened a criminal case over the airport in Makhachkala being overtaken by local residents under Article 212 of the Russian Criminal Code on mass riots, with penalties of imprisonment for 8 to 15 years.
Hundreds of protesters stormed Makhachkala Airport to find Jews on a plane from Tel Aviv and clashed with police.
The mob descended onto Makhachkala airport late Sunday, barging through barriers and taking over the runway, in an attempt to encircle a plane that had flown in from Israel
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