Paddy wagons as new amusement for children

On June 1, International Children’s Day, Gorky Park in Minsk “delighted” visitors with a new “fairground attraction” – a paddy wagon.

A real paddy wagon used by Belarusian riot police during crackdown on peaceful demonstrators arrived to the park. People who take to streets to protest against the policy of the state are taken to prisons in these huge armoured trucks produced by Minsk automobile plant. Peaceful demonstrators have many times been beaten up, as said by eyewitnesses. And yesterday children were given a possibility to sit on their benches…

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