South Ossetian Foreign Ministry to comment on incident with Russian wrestlers

The South Ossetian Ministry of Foreign Affairs will comment on the incident that happened involving Russian wrestlers on Monday, RIA Novosti reports.

Russian free-wrestlers opened unmotivated fire on the police in Tskhinvali.

The president of the Russian Free-Wrestling Federation, Mikhail Mamiashvili, said that the scandal is a provocation.

The Russian ambassador to South Ossetia, Elbrus Kargiyev, was invited to the South Ossetian Foreign Ministry to clarify the situation.

There is a video of a Russian coach making an offensive gesture from a black Mercedes and saying an insult in Ossetian. Attempts to block the street and other acts of hooliganism continued throughout day, ending up with a gunfight. Mikhail Mamiashvili and the former South Ossetian Defense Minister, Anatoly Barankevich, were in the vehicle.

A message on a South Ossetian online forum said that the car was stopped by special police forces.