Employees of the Investigative Committee and the Center for Combating Extremism began checking two men on the fact of an attack on a passenger in the Moscow metro in Muslim clothes. The victim Elizaveta Baranovskaya and her lawyer Aza Aliyeva began to receive Islamophobic comments and direct threats on social networks. This was reported on the website “Kavkaz. Realities".

In a video posted on September 1, one of the metro passengers demanded from Baranovskaya that she take off her niqab and wear “normal clothes” while “Russian boys are being killed in the NVO”. The victim began to film what was happening on the phone, but interrupted the recording, frightened by the reaction of the aggressor. After that, the passenger continued to verbally abuse the girl: “Why did my father fight in Chechnya, if you walk around like that?”. Other passengers stood up for Baranovskaya, however, the offender also found support in the person of one elderly man, who also came under scrutiny.

“I was wearing blue clothes and a black niqab, although the media incorrectly write that I was in all black,” Baranovskaya shared with reporters. She also stressed that she converted to Islam at a conscious age.

According to Aza Aliyeva, the criminal proceedings have not yet been opened - the attackers have only been interviewed. The defender sees in the actions of the aggressor a crime under the article on violation of the right to freedom of religion. However, a procedural check is carried out under the article on extremism, and if the accused has not previously been involved in it, he is only threatened with administrative responsibility. The lawyer also expressed her concern about the insults and death threats that began to be sent to her and her client Elizaveta Baranovskaya after the video was posted on social networks.