An unpleasant incident took place last Friday. One of the leaders of the Committee-2008, grand master Garri Kasparov was assaulted. It happened during the meeting of the 13-th World Champion with the students. A young man, who approached to Kasparov for an autograph, hit him on the head with a chessboard . Kasparov’s company binds the incident with the Nashi Movement, whose members consider Kasparov among “accomplices to fascists”. Nashi put the blame to the National Bolsheviks while the members of the Prosecutor’s Office do not rule out that the scandal was organized by Kasporov’s people to attract extra attention to him. Upon completion of the meeting the young man, who introduced himself as Burmistrov, came up to Kasparov with a chessboard and asked for an autograph with the words, “Garri Kimovich, you are a great chess player and my idol.” When Kasparov signed on the chessboard, the guy took it, hit him on the head with it and shouted, “You have betrayed the wonderful sports for dirty politics.” Then he tried to hit once again but was taken out of the hall. The young men took the chess figures that were scattered on the floor as souvenirs. “I was lucky it is chess but not baseball. No doubt all this was planned”, Garri Kasparov said. “My head still aches”, he added. The officers of the Prosecutor’s Office of the Moscow Central Administrative Okrug reported that no complaint from Kasparov was received. Some of them are sure that the guy belonged neither to National Bolsheviks nor to Nashi. “It was someone from Kasparov’s company as he could enter the building that was guarded and no one called the police after the incident”, one of the officers, who preferred to remain anonymous said, Kommersant newspaper writes.
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