MOSCOW, July 15. /TASS/. Punk band Pussy Riot has announced that four people ran out onto the field during the final of the world Cup and detained by security forces, were participants in its shares. This group has reported on his page in Facebook.
During the second half of the match France – Croatia in “Luzhniki” four men in a form similar to the police, ran onto the field, but security staff quickly brought them out of the lawn, after which the game resumed. The meeting ended in a French victory with the score 4:2.
Moment almost was not included in the broadcast, because in the world there is not a rule show running out on the field, not to create them public and not to provoke such cases.
“Four members of Pussy Riot in the finals of the world Cup: “a Policeman comes into play” on the field of the world championship, – stated in the message . The group said the action was inspired by the poet Dmitry Prigov, who created in the Russian culture the image of a fair sky policeman as opposed to earthly law enforcement authorities.
Earlier, the press service GU MVD in Moscow confirmed that the police arrested three girls and a young man. In turn, the source told the correspondent of TASS in Moscow that one of the detainees was a civil activist of art-group “War” Peter Verzilov. Currently, he and three girls are in the police Department.
In August 2012, the Khamovnichesky court in Moscow found three members of Pussy Riot – Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alekhina and Ekaterina samutsevich – guilty of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred and enmity for the scandalous action in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, which they called punk prayer. Each of them was sentenced to two years of imprisonment in a General regime colony. The Moscow city court in October of the same year changed the sentence to Samutsevich, replacing her real sentence to a suspended one. At the end of 2013, Tolokonnikova and Alekhina were granted Amnesty.