Three women have been investigated after a conflict broke out during a concert in Almaty, with one of them receiving five days of administrative arrest, the website infohub.kz reports.
According to the city's Police Department, security staff escorted the women involved in the conflict off the concert grounds. The event itself was not interrupted and continued as scheduled.
Details of the incident were shared by user @alishia.bbt on Threads. According to her, the women were pulling each other's hair and loudly arguing. One of them, the author of the post claims, shouted: "I'm old enough to be your mother, aren't you ashamed?"
Almaty police identified three women involved in the incident. "Two of them are residents of Almaty Region. One was placed under administrative arrest for 5 days by a court decision, and the second was fined for being in a public place while intoxicated. Administrative proceedings for petty hooliganism have been opened against the third participant, a resident of Taraz. The case has been sent to court," the city Police Department said in a statement.
In addition, police said that while monitoring social media they found a post containing false information about the concert allegedly being disrupted. The owner of the Instagram account was identified and fined as an administrative penalty.
"Police remind the public of liability for disturbing public order and spreading knowingly false information," the Police Department added.