Skinheads have attacked a Brazilian football player in downtown Kiev On the 7th of March, an act of xenophobia has taken place in Ukraine near the entertainment center �Arena City�. 14 men with shaved heads, who called themselves �skinheads�, have assaulted Brazilian footballer Gleiton Barbosa, a former player for the German team FC Schalke 04. One of the attackers sprayed a can of teargas in the Brazilian�s face. The other skinheads pounced on the footballer and began beating his legs. They stopped only when the footballer�s girlfriend shouted �What are you doing, this is a Brazilian football player!� Gleiton escaped inside the Arena City, and the skinheads began lecturing the woman saying that she, a Slav, should not be traveling across Kiev with a black man. As tensions escalated, someone from the crowd called the police and the skinheads quickly dispersed. Gleiton and his girlfriend Bjata, a soloist in the Lithuanian group Franki, were in Kiev as guests, supporting Ukrainian pop sensation Masha Fokina�s disc release. Source: korrespondent.net
Skinheads have attacked a Brazilian football player in downtown Kiev
One of the attackers sprayed a can of teargas in the Brazilian�s face. The other skinheads pounced on the footballer and began beating his legs. They stopped only when the footballer�s girlfriend shouted �What are you doing, this is a Brazilian football player!�
Gleiton escaped inside the Arena City, and the skinheads began lecturing the woman saying that she, a Slav, should not be traveling across Kiev with a black man. As tensions escalated, someone from the crowd called the police and the skinheads quickly dispersed.
Gleiton and his girlfriend Bjata, a soloist in the Lithuanian group Franki, were in Kiev as guests, supporting Ukrainian pop sensation Masha Fokina�s disc release.
Source: korrespondent.net
