Football : émeute à Moscou après la mort d’un supporter – 9-11 décembre 2010

Soccer fans, chanting nationalist slogans, clash with police in Moscow

CNN

December 12, 2010

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • A confrontation occurs at an unsanctioned mass memorial for a slain soccer fan
  • About 5,000 Spartak Moscow supporters clashed with police near the Kremlin
  • Report: More than 60 fans who were detained are released
  • The head of the team’s fan club says the incident has nothing to do with soccer

(CNN) — Police have released more than 60 soccer fans detained Saturday in downtown Moscow riots that injured 29 people, an interior department spokesman said Sunday, according to state-run media.

Hundreds of soccer fans clashed with Moscow police as an unsanctioned nationalist-tinged mass memorial for a fellow supporter turned violent, according to state media.

The confrontations took place in Manezh Square, outside the Kremlin, and led to the arrests of 65 Spartak Moscow fans for « disobedience, » Moscow police spokesman Viktor Biryukov said, according to official Russian news agency Itar-Tass.  More…

 

Fan’s killing sparks ugly riots in Moscow

Daily Mirror

by Steve Myall, 9/12/2010

THE murder of a football thug triggered a riot in Moscow yesterday – days after Russia swung the 2018 World Cup.

About 1,000 hooligans, some armed with metal bars, lit flares and clambered on cars as they demanded an investigation into the shooting of Spartak fan Yegor Sviridov, 28.

Sviridov, active in extremist fans’ group The Union died after being caught up in racist clashes last weekend.

Last month 1,000 Zenit St Petersburg fans smashed bus stops after their team won the domestic league.

Moscow Fan Death Suspect ‘Acted In Self-Defense’

rferl.org

December 08, 2010

MOSCOW — A man arrested for the killing of a soccer fan in Moscow says he acted in self-defense, RFE/RL’s Russian Service reports.

On December 6, one soccer fan was killed and a second injured during fighting between supporters of the Spartak soccer team and a group of young men from the North Caucasus.

Police arrested the suspect, Aslan Cherkesov, who is from the Kabardino-Balkaria Republic, on December 7. Cherkesov says that he had to use his traumatic pistol, for which he has a license, to defend himself after fans attacked him. More…

~ par Alain Bertho sur 10 décembre 2010.

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