MOSCOW -- Hundreds of people have demonstrated in the Russian capital to commemorate the shooting death last month during a brawl of a football fan, RFE/RL's Russian Service reports.
The incident has divided Muscovites in part because of Russian investigators' conclusion that Spartak Moscow fan Yegor Sviridov was shot after being "knowingly provoked" by a group of men from the North Caucasus.
A police spokesman told RFE/RL that the planned activities took place without major incident but that 19 people were detained as a "preventive measure."
The demonstrators laid flowers at the bus stop where Sviridov was shot, which has attracted icons, candles, and poems -- many of them with nationalistic or xenophobic undertones.
Around 1,000 people gathered in St. Petersburg to mark Sviridov's death.
with additional agency reporting
The incident has divided Muscovites in part because of Russian investigators' conclusion that Spartak Moscow fan Yegor Sviridov was shot after being "knowingly provoked" by a group of men from the North Caucasus.
A police spokesman told RFE/RL that the planned activities took place without major incident but that 19 people were detained as a "preventive measure."
The demonstrators laid flowers at the bus stop where Sviridov was shot, which has attracted icons, candles, and poems -- many of them with nationalistic or xenophobic undertones.
Around 1,000 people gathered in St. Petersburg to mark Sviridov's death.
with additional agency reporting
