Putin spokesman on football players accused of beating official at Moscow cafe
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Channel: AP Archive · 2018 · News & Politics
(9 Oct 2018) Russian police are investigating two football players accused of beating an official at a Moscow cafe. Officials say that Zenit St. Petersburg striker Alexander Kokorin and Krasnodar midfielder Pavel Mamayev are accused of beating a department head from the Russian Ministry for Industry and Trade who rebuked them for behaving improperly. A video taken by a surveillance camera and broadcast by Russian TV stations on Tuesday showed the two players hitting the man with a chair over his head and slapping him in the face. A probe is under way, and the players could face up to two years in prison if found guilty. The Russian Premier League strongly condemned the "hooliganism." Krasnodar said it may terminate Mamayev's contract, while Zenit said it would take disciplinary measures against Kokorin. President Vladimir Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that the Kremlin had "paid attention" to the incident. "We probably need to leave the emotions behind, to disregard who the football players are and who they are not," Peskov said. "There were lots of witnesses and there is a video recording so it won't be hard for police - if there is complaint by the injured person - to clarify the facts in the case." Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/ You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/0f31537e60e34ade69cb9d6037bab689
