On March 13, 2004, after the Zenit-Rotor match, a 21-year-old student of the St. Petersburg Electrotechnical University, Syrian citizen Abdalnader Albadav Mahamed Mamun, was killed at the Nevsky Prospekt metro station.
Football fans started a fight with three Syrians right on the platform and pushed one of them under the train.
Foreign students held a rally in protest.
On March 15, 2004, suspects in the murder of a Syrian student were arrested.
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