Moscow Taxi Driver Accidentally Drives Into Crowd

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  driver as 28-year-old Chyngyz Anarbek, who is from Kyrgyzstan. Anarbek’s older brother said only had been working as a taxi driver for a month. He said his sibling was in “stress, shock, horror” after what happened.  “Let people say what they want, but my brother is clean, not guilty. He was never and could never be a terrorist,” [1]  Kyrgystan is mostly Kyrgyz ethnic group with significant minorities of Uzbeks and Russians. Kyrgyz are predominantly Muslims of the Hanafi Sunni school.[41] Islam was first introduced by Arab traders who travelled along the Silk Road in the seventh and eighth centuries.


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1. [1]Police: Taxi driver who hit 8 Moscow pedestrians fell asleep - The Washington Post  url: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/taxi-driver-questioned-after-injuring-8-near-red-square/2018/06/17/37a8ccb0-720a-11e8-bda1-18e53a448a14_story.html Moscow city traffic authority identified the driver as 28-year-old Chyngyz Anarbek, who is from Kyrgyzstan.  brother:  He was never and could never be a terrorist, June 17, 2018 Speaking to The Associated Press from the town of Muras Ordo in Kyrgyzstan, Anarbek’s older brother said only had been working as a taxi driver for a month. He said his sibling was in “stress, shock, horror” after what happened.  “Let people say what they want, but my brother is clean, not guilty. He was never and could never be a terrorist,” Almazbek Anarbek said.  The younger Anarbek won a bronze medal last year in the world championship of Pankration, an ancient sport combining skills of boxing and wrestling  The sense we are getting is that (the taxi crash) is not football-related,” Mark Roberts, head of U.K. soccer policing, told the AP. “At the moment, everything we are being told is that it was just a run-of-the-mill event.”
2. [2]Concerns Mount Over Kyrgyzstan Being Breeding Ground for Terrorists VOA News Apr 4, 2017 - Russia's subway bombing, carried out by a suspected Kyrgyz-born Russian citizen, has again cast concerns on worldwide terrorism associated ..
3. [3]Why Are Uzbeks So Often Linked To Terrorist Attacks? RFERL  Nov 1, 2017 - When it comes to Central Asians and terrorism, why are Uzbeks so often ... words "terrorist attack" and "Uzbek" have appeared together several times in 2017 -- starting just minutes into the new year with a mass shooting at an Istanbul nightclub. Turkish police said the suspect was born in Uzbekistan and had trained in Afghanistan. In early April, when the St. Petersburg subway was bombed, Russian investigators said the attack was carried out by a Kyrgyzstan-born ethnic Uzbek with Russian citizenship. Just weeks after that, in Stockholm, a truck attack that left four dead was admitted to by an Uzbek national.  Now, in New York, the October 31 pickup-truck attack that left eight dead is being pinned on a 29-year-old immigrant from Uzbekistan.
4. Chingiz Akhmarov  was an Uzbek painter and Uzbekistan State Prize laureate. 
5. [5]Kyrgystan Ethnic Kyrgyz make up the majority of the country's 5.7 million people, followed by significant minorities of Uzbeks and Russians. The majority of the population are non-denominational Muslims.[17]
6. Muslims constitute 79% of the population of Uzbekistan which is west of Kyrgystan.

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Taxi driver loses control & accidentally drives into crowd in Moscow (VIDEO)
Edited time: 16 Jun, 2018 23:56
A Moscow taxi driver reportedly lost control of his car and drove his vehicle onto a crowded sidewalk, injuring seven people . The vehicle ran into several pedestrians then crashed into a road sign. The driver attempted to flee the site of the crash, with a visibly angry crowd chasing him, footage shot by bystanders shows. It remains unclear whether people apprehended the suspect, or if police got to him first. “According to preliminary data, the crash occurred when the driver lost control of the car,” Moscow police said, after questioning the detained suspect and launching a criminal probe into the incident. The man, who insists he had not driven into the crowd on purpose, had a Kyrgyz driving license and had worked as a taxi driver in Moscow for just about a month. According to sources familiar with the investigation, the driver was not drunk and claims he fled only because he was disoriented and scared. He reportedly said he was falling asleep after working all night, and had “accidentally” pressed the accelerator instead of brakes

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The testimony fell in line with official accounts, which described the incident as a “tragic accident” soon after the news broke. But some have pointed at inconsistencies in both accounts, with speculation that authorities may be covering up a more serious incident. 

video of the incident released yesterday does not seem to bear out the driver’s account of what happened. Most obviously, his car appears to accelerate after the driver passes the pedestrian at the zebra crossing,

state media has been slow in reporting the incident, and some ignored it altogether. In the past, media outlets that are loyal to the government have maintained news blackouts for terror-related incidents

ebruary 2016, for example, most chose not to report a woman who appeared at a Moscow metro station with a decapitated baby’s head, shouting “Allahu akbar.” (It was later reported the woman had mental health problems.) In December 2017, after a bus ploughed into a busy underpass in rush hour, most Russian stations again chose not to question the official account of a driver losing control.

 just because this guy is from Kyrgyzstan does not mean he is a terrorist,” says the security expert Mark Galeotti. “But we also know that we can’t trust the official Russian line.”

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