RUSSIA: Thugs Attack Crowd With Gas At St. Petersburg Queer Culture Festival - Polidicks

Joined by local politician Vitaly Milonov, anti-gay thugs stormed the opening of the QueerFest Cultural Festival in St. Petersburg where 16 attendees were reportedly hospitalized after an unknown gas was released. From [URL="http://Joined by local politician Vitaly Milonov, anti-gay thugs stormed theopening of the QueerFest Cultural Festival in St. Petersburg where 16attendees were reportedly hospitalized after an unknown gas wasreleased.<br /> <br /> From [url=http://www.rferl.org/content/gay-lgbt-st-petersburg-milonov/26595471.html"]Radio Free Europe[/URL]: [quote]St. Petersburg lawmaker Vitaly Milonov, his aide Anatoly Artyukh, and activists who associate themselves with the Russian Orthodox faith interrupted the opening ceremony of the "KviroFest-2014" event at a cafe on September 18. The visitors splashed an indelible green antiseptic on participants and released an unidentified gas that sickened many. The 10-day festival opened despite the attack. Russia decriminalized homosexual relations after the 1991 Soviet collapse, but such harassment is common. Rights defenders and Western governments including the United States say a 2013 law banning the dissemination of gay "propaganda" to minors is discriminatory and encourages ill-treatment of LGBT people.[/quote] More from [URL="http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/russia-gang-storm-gay-festival-release-gas-16-hospital190914"]Gay Star News[/URL]: [quote]LGBTI organization Coming Out St Petersburg, as well as 40 other volunteers, had worked tirelesly for five months to ensure the arts event was a success. But an hour and a half before the opening, Polina Andrianova told [I]Gay Star News [/I]they were forced to move to a different venue. She alleged the owner of the building had forced the space to break the contract, and the Coming Out group had to change the venue, installations, sound equipment and direct all the guests to another space. But the anti-gay thugs found them. "There were 20 aggressors, and the security guys that we hired blocked them from entering,' Andrianova told GSN. "They proceeded to spray the doors - two entrances - with this horrific green stuff. They also sprayed some form of gas - it left a really bad, putrid scent. Today we learned 16 people were hospitalized today from breathing this thing in." Andrianova believes Milonov may have left immediately before the lawbreaking began. But she says the deputy of St Petersburg comes to all of their events, any street rally, to try and shut them down. "He seems to enjoy the PR."[/quote]:

Clearly this was premeditated.

[QUOTE=A B.A. Survivor;46025030]Clearly this was premeditated.[/QUOTE] Sure they didn't happen to be passing by on their way home from the noxious gas store?

[QUOTE=A B.A. Survivor;46025030]Clearly this was premeditated.[/QUOTE] Nah. You know what it's like when you're out with a little nipper of Sarin and you see a bunch of chums bumming, you just can't help yourself.

[QUOTE=Mingebox;46025281]Sure they didn't happen to be passing by on their way home from the noxious gas store?[/QUOTE] Whoops, must have grabbed dangerous gas instead of my usual cologne. May as well spread the love