Football
35 fans detained in Kazan before the match for the Russian Super Cup
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In Kazan, 35 football fans were detained before the match for the OLIMPBET Russian Super Cup between Zenit St. Petersburg and CSKA Moscow, the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Republic of Tatarstan reports.
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– On the evening of July 14, the duty unit of the Kazan Line Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation received a message that the passengers of the Nizhny Novgorod-Kazan electric train were damaging property, burning flares in the carriage and violating public order.
Upon the arrival of the train in Kazan, police officers detained and delivered 35 citizens to the territorial police department. All of them are fans on their way to a football match.
In relation to 28 of them, reports on an administrative offense were drawn up under Part 1 of Art. 20.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation “Petty hooliganism”. In addition, a criminal case was initiated on the fact of the incident on the grounds of a crime under Part 2 of Art. 213 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Hooliganism”.
The investigation is ongoing, the statement said.
Source: Sportbox
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