On May 8, the Tushinsky District Court in Moscow fined two Spartak football club fans 1,000 rubles each for tattooing the number 1312 on their legs, the “Caution, News” channel noted on Telegram.
protocols on Sergey Kozlov and Alexandra Gorshkovawho were arrested on the evening of May 6 after the match between Spartak and CSKA in Moscow, were charged with the administrative offense of promoting Nazi paraphernalia or symbols (Part 1 of Article 20.3 of the Administrative Code).
The court ruling said that the number 1312 stands for the English abbreviation ASAV, which is used by football fan organizations TOYS, which a Samara court banned in 2017 and declared “extremist.” “Media Zone” He explainsTOYS (Young Opposition Supporters) is a fan group that supports Samara club “Wings of the Soviets”.
The number 1312 actually stands for the first letters of the English phrase All Cops Are Bastards (which translates as “All cops are bastards”). The abbreviation ACAB is widely used in gang and prison environments. It is often tattooed on the fingers.
The decision stated that both detainees appeared before the court and did not object to the “alleged crime incident.”
News Alert notes that previously neither the logo itself nor the number 1312 was linked by security forces and the courts to any organization: as a rule, only the decoding of the abbreviation was written in the documents. Mediazona wrote that because of the number 1312 itself, there were already protocols on the demonstration of extremist symbols, according to which fines were imposed.