Dozens of CSKA fans detained after the match with Zenit in Moscow

by time news

The police brought to the departments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs “a number of citizens for investigation” from the VEB-Arena stadium after the CSKA match against Zenit. According to TASS, about 30 fans of the Moscow club were detained. RIA Novosti claims that there are children and women among them. Agencies report that the reason could have been a pyrotechnic show staged by CSKA fans at the end of the match.

“For various offenses, a number of citizens have been brought to the territorial departments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to investigate and resolve the issue of bringing them to responsibility established by law,” the MIA General Administration for Moscow told TASS. The agency’s source said that about 30 detainees were taken to the Golovinsky district police department and the Voikovsky police department. No one is said to have been hurt.

RIA Novosti reports that some CSKA fans were not allowed to leave the C podium for more than an hour. Near the exit there were riot police officers who accompanied the fans first to a search, and then to paddy wagons.

Zenit defeated CSKA in the match of the 16th round of the Russian Premier League. The meeting in Moscow ended with a score of 2: 0. Zenit takes first place in the RPL standings, CSKA is on the sixth line.

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