POLITICS
BAKU CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT ANNOUNCES
In response, the Mayor of Baku officially offered them five places in the capital to conduct action on which they were officially warned.
Dissatisfied with the Mayor’s offers, as well as ignoring official warnings by the Police Department and the Prosecutor General Office, and in fact, striving to create unrest and confrontation with the police at all cost, beginning from 16.00 pm on 9 October some 400 members of the radical opposition, and their supporters in small groups have attempted to gather in the center of city where the people are crowded for rest, as well as in the places of intensive traffic and dense trade objects.
Performing its duties, the police undertook adequate measures to prevent violation of the public order and finally the unsanctioned action was prevented. As a result of confrontation, some 11 policemen were injured to various extent while 28 law violators were detained.
Investigation to the case was launched.