Football club “Lokomotiv” appealed to the RFU and RPL with appeals to clarify the situation regarding their fans, the club believes that excessive restrictive measures were taken against them. Lokomotiv’s statement has been published on the team’s official website.
The text says that FC receives numerous complaints from people who supported the team in the away match of the 28th round of the RPL in St. Petersburg.
“For our fans, 1817 tickets were provided instead of at least 2,000 tickets required by the regulations (with the stadium occupancy at 75%),” the statement says.
The club also points out that fans in the attributes of the guest team were massively transferred to the sectors of Lokomotiv. As a result, the part of the stands allocated for the guests was overcrowded. The statement emphasizes that the security service of FC Zenit did not provide for a sufficient number of reserve seats.
The club also complained about the “blatant attitude” towards their fans by law enforcement officers. So, people were not allowed into the room under the stands – the exits were blocked by riot police, and after the match the fans from the guest sector were massively and forcibly escorted into buses and taken to the city center. At the same time, many fans came to the match in their cars and left them in the parking lot near the stadium.
“Some buses broke down on the way, but the fans continued to be kept in them for a long time. As a result, numerous facts of being late for flights to the airport, facts of being late for train departure, while many of our fans were on buses with children, ”the club said.
Lokomotiv asked the leadership of the RPL and RFU to pay attention to this situation and deal with “all manifestations of inappropriate attitude” towards the fans. The club also asks for an assessment of the actions of the Main Internal Affairs Directorate of St. Petersburg.
On May 2, Zenit beat Lokomotiv 6: 1 and became the champion of the country ahead of schedule.