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Football Fans Massively Detained After Nioman - BATE Match In Hrodna

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Football Fans Massively Detained After Nioman - BATE Match In Hrodna

Two firecrackers were the reason for the detentions.

After the football match Nioman - BATE on June 17, police detained 13 fans of the Hrodna club. Some of them were detained very brutaly, Radio Svaboda reports.

Two firecrackers, blown up at the stands after the match, became the reason for the detentions. The fans unfurled a large cloth with the inscription "To be Continued...", made as a screen saver of the 20th Century Fox film company. At the same time, two firecrackers were blown up at the stands.

The fans do not say who did it. They admit that they did not have a permit for pyrotechnics – the employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations had banned it. And the organizers of the performance did not plan to use firecrackers – "not to expose people from the club, who helped in the registration of the performance."

When leaving the stands, the police asked the fan to go to the bus. Allegedly, he was suspected of blowing up firecrackers. But when the fans a bit moved away from the detainee, the policemen rounded him up and put on the ground. Then another one was detained in the same way. The fans were indignant at the cruel treatment. Several people started to capture on video what was going on with their mobile phones. Someone asked the policemen to show their identity cards.

Finally, the security officers started to grab people, put handcuffs on them and throw them into the paddy wagon. It is known that some fans were in a state of alcoholic intoxication.

One of the detainees described the events: "They detained brutally, putting armlocks on people. I was put face down to the ground, put the handcuffs on. After that one of the riot policemen hit me in the face with a bootleg. When they brought me to the police department, they immediately led me to the washbasin, as my face was in blood."

According to him, people were thrown into the paddy wagon against each other, "like swine", beaten with batons. A total of 13 people were detained, mostly adult men under 40 years old. Among them was one 17-year-old girl. The detainees spent the night in the detention center, and on Monday, June 18, they were released.

The fans assume that the policemen are taking revenge on them for the performance on the 100th anniversary of the Belarusian People's Republic. On March 30, at the match in Hrodna, Nioman fans unfurled a large "Charter," which proclaimed the independence of the BPR. Although permission for the performance had been got in advance, administrative protocols were drawn up against club employees, the fans say.

The police explain the detention of 13 people after the match on June 17 by the fact that the fans tried to fight off the first two detainees and started a fight with the police.

Ten people are punished with fines from 5 to 15 basic units, and two – by an arrest from 5 to 7 days.

According to the preliminary version, a minor girl had brought the firecrackers to the stadium. She was released on June 17 after investigation.

At the moment, all the 13 fans have been released.

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