The Presnensky District Court, at the request of the TFR, arrested three participants in the May Day brawl near the June restaurant in Moscow, in which the defender of the CSKA basketball club Alexei Shved was seriously injured. In court, it turned out that none of the detainees were charged with causing grievous bodily harm to Mr. Shved (part 3 of article 111 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) – all three were charged only with group hooliganism (part 2 of article 213 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). According to the defendants themselves, the fatal blow that broke the athlete’s head was inflicted by their fourth alleged accomplice – an older man who has not yet been found.

On Thursday, the Presnensky District Court of Moscow, at the request of the district department of the ICR, sent three alleged participants in a recent brawl in the center of Moscow, in which basketball player Alexei Shved was injured, to a pre-trial detention center for two months. 20-year-old Gleb Pisarev, Prince Amiraslanov and his 17-year-old brother were in custody. All three were detained last Wednesday as part of search activities organized by the police investigation of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Presnensky district. The police opened a criminal case on the fact of causing serious harm to the health of Alexei Shved and suspected the detainees of precisely this crime, which provides for punishment of up to 12 years in prison.

Meanwhile, the police failed to accuse the probable participants in the fight of injuring the basketball player.

As Lyudmila Nefedova, an official representative of the Moscow prosecutor’s office, said yesterday, one of the three detainees turned out to be a minor, so the supervisory agency withdrew the criminal case from the district police department and transferred it to the territorial division of the TFR. In the same place, having re-interrogated the suspects, witnesses and victims, they found out that the young people participated in the beating of Mr. Shved, but did not maim him.

According to all three defendants, in the ensuing fight, one of them only knocked the basketball player over on the pavement, and the fourth participant in the brawl delivered a fatal blow to the head of the already lying athlete.

The defendants reported that they only know his name – Yusuf and age – 31 years old. According to them, Yusuf drove along Bolshaya Nikitskaya Street in a Chevrolet Tahoe, and when he saw a fight on the sidewalk, he stopped the car and entered into a conflict on the side of his countrymen. Then he took random alleged accomplices away from the scene. Thus, the owner of Tahoe is still considered the main cause of harm to Mr. Shved’s health. So far, it has not been possible to find him, and the ICR qualified the actions of the other participants in the fight as group hooliganism, which provides for sending the perpetrator to a colony for up to seven years.

The conflict between the three arrested and Mr. Shved took place late in the evening of May 1st. According to the defendants, he was provoked by the athlete’s wife, Anastasia Ziaditdinova, who allegedly made offensive statements regarding their nationality. The lady refuted these accusations, saying that she herself is a Tatar, her grandfather still serves as a mullah in a mosque, and her family’s friends are full of Azerbaijanis and Chechens.

The victims believe that the company that was just waiting for the spouses at the exit from the restaurant was in an inadequate state – the young people were looking for an excuse to provoke a fight.

At first, they did not like the remark allegedly made by Aleksey Shved to one of the accused, then the defender’s long, and even braided, hair became the subject of ridicule. The last argument of the youth was the reproach to the master of sports of international class Shved for his inability to play basketball. The match that took place a few hours before the clash at Bolshaya Nikitskaya, CSKA really lost to the Kuban Lokomotiv, and the alleged hooligans, according to them, made a decent bet on the army.