A McDonald’s super fan chained himself to one of his restaurants in Moscow because he didn’t want it to close

“They have no right to close,” Luka Safronov-Zatravkin, a Russian pianist and son of artist Nikas Safronov, said on Sunday while chained to the restaurant in Pushkin Square in Moscow, according to a translation of the journalist. Kevin Rothrock.

Safronov-Zatravkin also shouted that ‘closing is an act of hostility against me and my fellow citizens’, according to a translation by the Financial Times journalist Max Seddon.

Safronov-Zatravkin said in a Telegram article that removing the channel from Russia took away his freedom and asked why ordinary citizens were being punished for the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This video, which is in Russian, has been viewed nearly 30,000 times.

Videosposted on social media show him being taken away by the police. The Daily Mail reported that Safronov-Zatravkin was arrested and fined for the stunt, and Safronov-Zatravkin said on Facebook that he was fined.

That day, people started queuing outside the restaurant in Moscow at 4 a.m., and by the time it opened at 10 a.m., there was already a 500-meter line of customers waiting to enter.