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Former European boxing champion Nikita Ivanov opened fire and wounded four people .

The video shows that at first there was a fight between the two men, later one of them took a weapon from his jacket pocket and opened fire, shooting several times at the man with whom he was fighting, and then at the people standing nearby. Another man tried to detain him, but Ivanov continued to shoot.

The shooting occurred on the evening of November 5 near the Moscow restaurant Paulaner Brauhaus Moscow Paveletsky on Shlyuzovaya Embankment. RBC sources in the police and the territorial department of the department clarified that the conflict began after 37-year-old Ivanov asked for a cigarette while leaving the establishment with his companion. According to one of them, the former athlete leaned on the shoulder of 21-year-old student of the geological faculty of Moscow State University Oleg Gusarevich, who was standing with a group at the entrance to the restaurant. After the student asked Ivanov to remove his hand, a conflict began.

As a result, the athlete was detained, and a criminal case was opened against him under the article of hooliganism (Part 2 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code) with a maximum penalty of seven years in prison. The investigation asked to arrest him , the court granted this request and sent Ivanov to a pre-trial detention center.

Nikita Ivanov won a silver medal at the European Championship in Ankara in 2011, and won the European Championship in Minsk in 2013. The athlete ended his boxing career in 2014.