Zenit St Petersburg striker Danko Lazović was hit by a local policeman's electroshock weapon after a league game against FC Volga in Nizhny Novgorod on Saturday.
Television footage showed the shirtless Serbian being approached by police officers as he was trying to throw his shirt to his team's fans in the stands following Zenit's comfortable 2-0 away win.
"I just went to give my jersey to the fans after the match, when a police officer appeared behind me and tasered me in the back with his electric shocker," Lazović explained to the club's official website.
"I don't know why that happened. Maybe he thought that I was one of the fans. Sometimes people do really awful things.
"It was a strange feeling. It's just amazing that that kind of thing can happen at sporting events, but here, in Russia, apparently everything is possible."
A spokesman for the Russian Premier League said executives were studying Saturday's match reports but would not issue a statement until later.
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| Danko Lazović inspects his body after being shocked with electric shock batton by a police officer Photo: AP |
Television footage showed the shirtless Serbian being approached by police officers as he was trying to throw his shirt to his team's fans in the stands following Zenit's comfortable 2-0 away win.
Zenit claim that Lazović was then zapped by a stun gun that left a burn mark under his right shoulder blade. Footage showed the 28-year-old rubbing his side as he walked away from the fans.
"I just went to give my jersey to the fans after the match, when a police officer appeared behind me and tasered me in the back with his electric shocker," Lazović explained to the club's official website.
"I don't know why that happened. Maybe he thought that I was one of the fans. Sometimes people do really awful things.
"It was a strange feeling. It's just amazing that that kind of thing can happen at sporting events, but here, in Russia, apparently everything is possible."
A spokesman for the Russian Premier League said executives were studying Saturday's match reports but would not issue a statement until later.
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