“There has been an increase in tension with anti-Semitic acts in this area of ​​the Caucasus,” indicates a geopolitical analyst

Russian images from Dagestan, the Russian Republic of the Caucasus, show the airport invaded on Sunday October 29 by hundreds of furious men. A little more than 24 hours after these events, in terms of facts, what do we know? “Since the start of the weekend, there has been an increase in tension with increasingly serious anti-Semitic acts, in this area of ​​the Caucasus, therefore in Dagestan but not only”reports Ulrich Bounat, geopolitical analyst, specialized in Central and Eastern Europe, and associate researcher at Open Diplomacy.

The passengers were exfiltrated by helicopter

The attacks have “culminated last night, with an attack on Makhachkala airport by around 1,500 people (Russia)the capital of Dagestan, because there was a flight arriving from Tel Aviv (Israel)with a connection to Moscow, and there were around forty people inside., recalls Ulrich Bounat. Passengers “welcomed by these demonstrators who very clearly wanted to lynch the Jews who were potentially inside this device. (…) It took an intervention by the Russian national guard to exfiltrate these people by helicopter to a military base located next to”adds Ulrich Bounat.