A flame broke from Dagelektromash sector, one of the largest dresses avenues around, on 30 February. According to formal accounts, new flames protected a place step 1,000 rectangular yards, impacting eight hundred stand, but dealers state the actual matter try amateur Sado wife 17,900 rectangular metres, destroying 1,460 stalls.

To 100 dealers, mostly feminine, achieved within the main square out of Makhachkala in the into the 9 November, demanding a meeting with interim lead off Daghestan Vladimir Vasilyev. Around , about three of the protesters had been greet in to meet your. These were followed by brand new deputy head out-of Makhachkala government Magomed Magomedov.

Is this new fire accidental?

The new buyers say that the fresh new fire wasn’t triggered because of neglect, as there are no-one on the market at the time it trapped flames. They also claim to has actually spoken in order to an experience just who noticed a couple cars which have authorities count plates driving towards the industry.

‘As soon as [Musa] Musayev turned into mayor he instantly launched our sector was gone somewhere. “This might be good cardboard-container elizabeth for for example an industry in the middle out of the city inside the twenty-first century”. Isn’t really it awkward to burn people in twenty-first century, toss them away with the roadways?’ one to protester asked.

Among the buyers entitled Pari claims that when the brand new buyers concerned the market to keep items using their stalls, cops don’t permit them to inside.

‘Tubes regarding flames hydrants was indeed sleeping on the floor, no one is actually trying to extinguish brand new consuming services and products. The newest fire fighters said that they hadn’t come bought doing so’, Pari remembers.

‘They could has only told all of us your sector try closing down and this we had to depart they. Why would it lose all of us such as this? As to the reasons performed they want to burn all of our merchandise?’, Zumrud, yet another activist asks.

Small settlement

‘Abdulatipov (previous lead out of Daghestan) called you “unscrupulous taxpayers”. But we were using what you. The fresh every quarter income tax from your business is actually ?twenty-five billion ($420,000)’, one to protester told you.

Pari states that she had around three stand on markets, that had been missing plus a factory. Around three teams exactly who struggled to obtain their own have likewise shed their work.

‘It’s been eight weeks, I just stay and should not do anything. Once i say there is no job I am always told: “wade, behave as a housemaid”. I do not need certainly to become a housemaid, I’m a keen entrepreneur’, Pari feedback.

‘They’d to guard our goods’

If buyers emerged throughout the regulators offices in the that have Magomedov, it told protesters the regulators administration failed to be aware that this new market’s management still hadn’t paid sufferers of flames.

‘[Parliamentary Chair Abdusamad Gamidov] guaranteed to greatly help us. He said that the treating the market industry must fulfil the demands. Underneath the price, they had to guard the services and products, but they didn’t. Today they will be entitled [to get to know the federal government] and they’ll discuss the issue of payment. When your sector government cannot complete our very own needs we’re going to sue all of them. Gamidov assured to support united states inside court’, the women remarked.

Nonetheless they mentioned that Gamidov had assured to greatly help a fund designed to assistance buyers impacted by new fire by confiscating an equivalent of one to day’s money from ‘higher businessmen’.

Magomedov would not provide an opinion in order to OC Mass media claiming ‘they are requesting money, they want compensation. You ought to ask anyone else what they want. We already provided interviews to a papers last night. Perform I have to give interviews every day? Was I a musician to you, otherwise what?’ the guy told all of us.