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British Fans Beaten in Moscow
Britain’s football fans that arrived in Moscow to support their team during the standoff against Russia were beaten past night. More likely than not, they will have to watch the match from hospital beds.
Roughly 1,500 Britain’s fans had arrived in Moscow, Evgeni Gildeev, deputy chief of the PR department at Moscow GUVD, told RBC.
”The Brits that arrived for Russia-England match are aggressive, they have separated for night clubs and pubs, getting about the unfamiliar city when drunk, provoking scuffles with the locals,” Gildeev explained.
A few rows have been reported already. Four Brits were beaten near the VDNKh metro station and are in the Botkin Hospital. Another fan, a Brit of 33 years old, was attacked near the restaurant in Novy Arbat and delivered to same Botkin hospital with closed craniocerebral injury, brain edema and injury of the back. The third clash happened in Bolshaya Lubyanka. This time, however, the fan was convoyed not to the hospital but to the police. He was very drunk and said he had been beaten in a bar.
The football match of Russia and Britain begins today, at 7:00 p.m. MSK at Moscow Luzhniki Stadium. It is expected to lure 77,000 fans, including 4,500 residents of Britain.
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