Hellish 'meat grinder' in the subway of Rome: details of the accident with Russian fans appeared. VIDEO

About 30 fans of the CSKA football club were injured as a result of the collapse of an escalator at the Repubblica metro station in Rome. According to one version, the cause of the accident was the actions of the fans themselves, but they insist that this is not so.

According to Air force, the incident occurred the day before at about 19:00 local time, when fans were heading to the Olympic Stadium in Rome for the match between CSKA and Roma, which ultimately ended in a defeat for the army team with a score of 0:3.

Charge d'affaires at the Russian Embassy in Italy, Maxim Burliai told RIA Novosti that 16 Russians were hospitalized, eight of them have already been discharged from hospitals.

“Several operations were performed at night, and two more operations are currently underway. The condition of the victims is stable,” Burlyai said.

The Department of Consular Service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine confirmed that among the victims there were also Ukrainian citizens - four of them were hospitalized.

The Rome prosecutor's office and the capital's metro operator began an investigation into the incident. The Repubblica station is temporarily closed and trains pass through it without stopping.

What happened to the escalator?

The video, which appeared in the Italian media, shows how the escalator suddenly accelerates sharply, and the fans crowded on it fall on each other.

In Rome before the match # RomaTSSKA at one of the central metro stations an escalator with fans has failed, there are serious injuries (c) pic.twitter.com/4hslg9ySBt

- CSKA fans ★ RBWorld (@RBWorldorg) October 23, 2018

The photographs from the scene show that several of the lower steps of the escalator are completely destroyed.

“I just saw a scene from the Apocalypse. One of the escalators working down, one meter away from me, began to accelerate sharply, as if he had gone crazy,” the Repubblica newspaper quotes an eyewitness to the event.

“There were a lot of people there, they were jumping on top of each other. The escalator sped up, and the guys didn’t have time to get off it,” says another eyewitness.

As Repubblica notes, citing law enforcement agencies, the cause of the accident was most likely the behavior of fans, many of whom allegedly danced and sang on the steps of the escalator.

#Rome #metro #repubblica, aggiornamento ore 21: 00: terminata la prima fase dell'intervento dei #vigilidelfuoco, tutti i feriti sono stati soccorsi e avviati agli ospedali. Prosegue l'intervento di messa in sicurezza pic.twitter.com/PpqwYlmBDm

- Vigili del Fuoco (@emergenzavvf) October 23, 2018

Interior Minister, Deputy Prime Minister of Italy Matteo Salvini commented on the incident in a rather drastic manner.

“It seems to me that there were dozens of drunk pseudo-fans of the Russian team who were creating a mess. And escalators are not made to be jumped on,” Salvini said on RTL radio.

At the same time, Russian fans insist that there were no jumps on the escalator.

The fan, who was phoned by Russian commentator Vladimir Stognienko, said that they really sang on the escalator, but did not jump.

Russians interviewed by Italian publications adhere to the same version. "Never! Russians don’t jump,” one Russian fan told Corriere della Sera.

“We didn’t jump,” another Russian woman on the escalator told ANSA news agency.

The Russian embassy in Rome insists that all hospitalized fans were sober. The victims, who refused hospitalization but went to the embassy, ​​also “appeared sober” to diplomats.

Escalator was new

An employee of the transport company Atac told the Messaggero publication that the escalators in the Roman metro undergo a thorough monthly check.

“The technical life of an escalator is about 30 years, and the escalator at Repubblica station is relatively new, less than 10 years old,” he notes.

Another employee of the company told the publication that during 40 years of work in the public transport of Rome, he had never seen such incidents.

The newspaper also cites a document according to which Atac, over the past three years, has repeatedly asked the capital authorities to allocate funds for unscheduled repairs of equipment on line A, where the Repubblica station is located, and on line B. However, according to the publication, these requests remained unnoticed.

"Emergency"

Sports commentator Vladimir Stognienko wrote on his Twitter that the victims allegedly had to wait a long time for an ambulance.

One of the eyewitnesses also told RIA Novosti that the wounded were not immediately given the necessary assistance.

“The metro employees didn’t do anything, we told them that there were people below in blood, and they told us: “We know, we know.” And then the police came running with batons, without understanding the situation, they started yelling in Italian and using force against the fans, who were not injured,” he said.

However, Russian President Vladimir Putin thanked Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, who is visiting Moscow, for helping the Russian fans.

“For my part, I would like to convey through you my words of gratitude to the mayor of Rome and the medical staff who provide assistance to Russian football fans,” he said.

Fights of fans

Italian media also report that clashes between CSKA and Roma fans occurred near the Olympic Stadium before the match. There were reports that a CSKA fan had been stabbed, but the Russian embassy later said that was not the case.

One of the fans, in a conversation with Komsomolskaya Pravda, said that the Italian fans were allegedly the first to attack the Russians in retaliation for the fact that the CSKA ultras had previously destroyed the Roma fan bar.

“The path to the stadium goes through a rather dark park. And there they were waiting for us. Single fans were pulled out. Italian fans were armed with knives. I saw how the ambulances then took away the guys with knives, the asphalt in some places was covered in blood,” he said.

The Russian embassy explained that information about stab wounds was not confirmed, and the person who was considered to have received such a wound, eventually went to the stadium to watch the match.

According to the Soviet Sport publication, after the match, CSKA fans were detained in the stands for some time to avoid new clashes with Italian fans. In total, about 46 thousand fans attended the match.

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