US citizen detained in Moscow for 'violence' against police
The Russian Investigative Committee announced Wednesday that a US national was arrested in Moscow for assaulting a police officer. On the night of Aug. 12, police stopped a man for a routine document check. He refused to provide identification and subsequently attacked a law enforcement officer, according to a statement.
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- Published Date: 05:44 | 14 August 2024
- Modified Date: 05:44 | 14 August 2024
Russian police have detained a US citizen in Moscow for "violence" against a law enforcement officer, investigators said Wednesday.
"At night on August 12, 2024, a US citizen was brought to a Moscow police station in connection with his hooliganism," Russia's Investigative Committee said in a statement.
"The suspect refused to provide his identity documents, after which he used violence against a law enforcement officer," it said.
The statement said the man, who was not named, would be charged and investigators would ask a court that he be remanded in custody.
The incident comes two weeks after the release of US reporter Evan Gershkovich, former US marine Paul Whelan and 14 others from Russian jails in the biggest East-West prisoner exchange since the Cold War.
There are still several US citizens and other Western nationals in Russian prisons on a variety of charges.
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