Judging from the video recorded by 1 of the visitors, all practitioners, including women, had to lie face down. Subsequently, according to a fitness club customer, people were divided according to cultural origin (‘Russian/non-Russian’) and male passports were checked.
According to Baza, police officers led them 2 to the locker area for documents, and then to the personnel of the military conscript office. They released those whose papers were fine. Those who did not carry them received a appropriate call told the canal 1 of the club's customers (later Baza wrote that they were “taken for control).
In Spirit Fitness did not comment on the raid, and employees of the company said that specified law enforcement activities happen everywhere. "My registration and enlistment papers are in complete order, they let me go. But those guys who avoided a military office and were without a passport got into trouble," said 1 of the visitors in an interview with MSK1.
Another draft for the Russian Army
The organization “Go through the forest” helping to avoid conscription to Russians who do not want to participate in the war with Ukraine, citing eyewitnesses, writes that a typical of the military recruitment office had a “fat briefcase” with calls prepared for delivery.
The raid of law enforcement took place on the eve of the start of the spring draft to the Russian army, which was scheduled for April 1. The upcoming draft campaign, like last year, will affect men aged 18 to 30. Spring draft in 2024 became the largest in the country in the last 8 years: 150 000, people went to the military (in 2023 147 000).
