MOSCOW, November 16 (RAPSI) – A magistrate court will start hearing a case against ex-player of the Russian national football team Roman Shirokov on November 25, the victim’s lawyer Alexander Ostrovsky has told RAPSI. 

Shirokov stands charged with intended infliction of harm to health of arbiter Nikita Danchenko.

According to investigators, on August 10, Shirokov attacked Danchenko during an amateur football match; a video record of the incident was disseminated via social media.