*I'd be betting more of these paratroops have
died from alcohol than from enemy fire. – bruces
POLICE PREVENT RAMPAGE BY FORMER AIRBORNE TROOPS.
Moscow police on 2 August arrested about 40 men who were attempting to rampage through the Petrovsko-Razumovskii market, lenta.ru, Interfax, and other Russian media reported.
The men were among an estimated 100 men who
entered the market with the apparent intention of beating up people
from the Caucasus, police said. No one was reported injured in the
incident.
The rioters were celebrating the anniversary of the
founding of the Airborne Forces, and police identified most of them
as former paratroopers. A police spokesman said that most of those
arrested were heavily inebriated, the website reported. RIA-Novosti
reported that one man was injured when about 20 men began fighting near the entrance to Moscow's Gorkii Park. Police, however,
reportedly declined to intervene in that incident. A police spokesman
told the news agency that "the celebration is proceeding as usual."
RC
