2011/01/11

The riot behind Russian soccer

Posted by Lillian Huang
     On December 11, Some 5,000 men and women claim to mourning for the Moscow soccer’s fan, Yegor Sviridov, who was killed in fighting by the Chechenians that gathered in the Moscow's Manezh Square.  At first, these congregants are very quiet until someone said “disobedience”, they started to fluctuation graduatelly. Finally, the mass of people were shouting that said “Fighting the Chechenians, saving the Moscovites! Fighting the Chechenians, saving the Moscovites!” toward these anti-riot police. The anti-riot police arrested 700 people in city centre.




     The cause of the Mopscow soccer’s fan, Yegor Sviridov, who was killed  by Chechenians. On December 6, when Sviridov went to take a bus and met a group of Chechenian, they used some insulting remarks that had erupted over the conflict. Suddenly, a Chechenian shot Sviridov’s head by four rubber bullets. Therefore, Sviridov was dead. Police arrested these Chechenian, but release them quickly.

     A spokesman for the police, Vitkor Biryukov said to Interfax “They had expected a fight in street, so the local police were organized riot troops almost 1,000 people. And they had confiscated their air guns, knives, many sticks and stun guns. ”


 Finally, the Vitkor Biryukov said “they will reinforce patrols in city centre.”

     After the riot happened, Russian Federation of Minister of Internal Affairs, Bolat Nurgaliyev who said “When they gathered that not only soccer fans, but also had ultra-nationalisms in the Moscow's Manezh Square, these ultra-nationalisms were incited to cause the large-scale riots.” And the Russian Government wasn’t allowed anyone to ignore their rules. Therefore, the Russian Government will judge seriously and fairly by offenders.

     These ultra-nationalisms employed congregant’s mood to raise a disturbance. This thing reflected racism between Russians and Chechenians. In next race, some Moscow’s soccer team will play in Caucasus. It will lurk a huge problem behind the Russian soccer.

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