Clash between people of a Roma settlement of Tula and Russian riot police

Clashes broke out between people of a Roma settlement of Tula and Russian riot police on the supply of Gazprom gas - the problem has been brewing for a long time and has led to a revolt by a Roma settlement near the city of Tula. The revolt has pitted men, women and stick-carrying children against nearly 500 Russian riot-police.
This has been reported in news.sky.com dated 17 March 2016.

The center of the dispute is on access to a natural gas pipeline that runs through a village called Plekhanovo. It seems local Roma residents had connected dozens of their own do-it-yourself lines to the main supply for cooking, heat and fuel. However, while trying to hook up another line, the system shutdown and some 400 homes in the area got disconnected from the gas supply.
When engineers tried to rep[air the pipeline, clashes broke out. The local Roma residents wanted to block employees from Russian energy giant Gazprom by burning tyres and pelting with stones. Of course, local Roma claimed that the violence was a reflection of a long-standing frustrations in the area.
In the opinion of human rights organizations, Roma - and other groups who are perceived as gypsies - are subjected to widespread discrimination in Russia. Instead of helping people register their houses and legalize their gas supplies, the authorities have been demolishing their houses. Since 2005, demolition has been going on without compensation.
Reps of Gazprom have indicated that the whole village is supplied with gas with the exception of the Roma settlement. They have discovered two illegal pipes with a diameter of 10cm but they have not yet been disconnected.


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