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

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…










