Referee Vincic had just kicked off the match between Real Madrid and Borussia for the Champions League final when he was forced to interrupt the match due to the sudden entry of three people onto the pitch. Only one was stopped by security. The first heckler reached the center of the pitch and posed for a selfie before running away from the side opposite the central stand, without anyone from security managing to intercept him. The second invader attracted the staff but he too initially managed to escape. The third arrived near the Dortmund fan area. He cheered like CR7, also accompanied by the Wembley “Siuu”. Then, chased by security men, he was stopped. The match was interrupted for two minutes. In the end they were all caught but they achieved their goal.
The writing on the invaders’ t-shirts
In fact, the three invaders were wearing three identical gray t-shirts, which bore the name Mellstroy and that of his channel on the new Kick platform but who is Mellstroj? His real name is Andréi Burim and he is a popular and controversial Russian YouTuber. At 25, she also has three million followers on Instagram and 1.8 million on TikTok.
Who is Mellstroy, the controversial Russian YouTuber
Although he started streaming in 2015, playing Minecraft, CS, Dota 2 and other popular games on YouTube, in 2017 he became famous for showing how he met girls via chat and convinced them to take off their clothes with the promise of getting likes. In a country where women’s rights are violated and gender violence is not punished because it is considered a “private matter”, Mellstroy, who already had more than 680,000 followers on Twitch, dedicated himself to trash streaming, a questionable but very popular in those years in Russia.
In October 2020, no one was horrified when – during a live event – grabbed Alena Efremova by the back of her head and repeatedly slammed her head against a table, causing injuries to her mouth. No spectator asked him to stop. The model reported him and demanded compensation of ten million rubles, more than 130 thousand dollars, which Mellstroy laughed at. “It’s a humiliatingly low amount of money; “If you asked me for 30 or 40 million I would pay.”
A few months later, the district court Presnensky of Moscow convicted the YouTuber of physical assault but with a lesser sentence: 6 months of corrective work and a thousand dollars to Efremova. The most serious consequence for the streamer’s future was being banned from Twitch and YouTube, so he has now switched to Kick. There he has one of the most subscribed channels among non-English-speaking streamers.
The reward of 350 thousand dollars promised by Mellstroy
Before the Champions League final in London, invited his 470,700 followers to invade the Wembley lawn for a reward of $350,000 to whoever could do it first. At least three of them succeeded although, for now, the only thing they achieved was going to prison.
Police arrested 53 people
In addition to this episode, other episodes of violence occurred yesterday during the final. London Police announced they had made 53 arrests in Wembley. Five people were arrested for ‘trespassing’, that is, for invading the pitch during the game or for attempting to do so. Most of the others were arrested for “attempted intrusion into the security perimeter”. In other words, according to the police, they attempted to enter without a ticket. The British organizers had put in place a significant system (police officers, stewards, reception staff, etc.) to avoid the incidents that occurred at Wembley in 2021, on the sidelines of the England-Italy European Championship final, and in 2022 in Saint-Italy. Denis when Real had won their last title before yesterday, against Liverpool.
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