Two police officers were attacked inside a metro station by two men after one of the men refused to comply with a request for identity documents.
The Moscow branch of Russia’s Investigative Committee reported on Friday that the two men, migrants from Tajikistan, had been arrested on charges of committing violence against authorities. They had been in the Tulskaya metro station of the Russian capital when police on duty asked one of them for personal identity documents.
When he refused to go with them, they attempted to detain him. In video footage captured by CCTV, the police can be seen wrestling the resisting suspect to the floor, during which a second man runs up and launches a flying kick at one of the officers, hitting him in the chest. A brief fistfight then breaks out, after which the second man appears to run off.
Authorities reported that one of them was arrested that day, and the other one was apprehended and brought in the next morning. They could face up to five years in prison.
