Disgraced Russian Footballers Freed From Prison
Muhammad Rameez Published September 17, 2019 | 01:50 PM
Moscow, Sept 17 (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 17th Sep, 2019 ) :Russian footballers Pavel Mamaev and Alexander Kokorin were released on Tuesday after spending nearly a year in prison over a night of drunken assaults.
Russian state television showed Krasnodar midfielder Mamaev, 31, and Zenit Saint Petersburg forward Kokorin, 28, leave the prison where they were held in the southwestern Belgorod region.
Wearing black hoodies, the pair rushed to a car while refusing to take questions from the media gathered outside the prison.
A court this month granted the footballers early release following their convictions in May for last year's attacks in Moscow.
Including time in pre-trial detention, they had served 11 months of their 17-18 month sentences for hooliganism.
In a booze-fuelled night last October, Mamaev and Kokorin first assaulted the chauffeur of a tv presenter as he waited in a car park.
In an assault caught on video, they then attacked two government officials in an upmarket cafe, hitting one of them with a chair.
The assaults sparked outrage in Russia, where the pair had previously caused scandal when a video emerged from a Monte Carlo nightclub showing them cavorting at a champagne-fuelled party shortly after Russia's early exit from Euro 2016.
The Russian Premier League last year condemned the assault and briefly considered a lifetime ban.
Krasnodar still lists Mamaev as a player on its website, which says that his contract is valid until the end of the year.
Both players are Russian internationals though Kokorin last played for the national side in late 2017, while Mamaev was last selected in 2016.
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