Doctors have diagnosed a severe open head injury
Details of the attack on 34-year-old CSKA basketball player Alexei Shved in the center of Moscow have become known. At first, the athlete refused hospitalization, and when he felt worse, he went to a private hospital, where he was diagnosed with a fracture of the temporal bone.
As it became known to MK, on the evening of May 1, the athlete, along with his wife and friends, spent time in a restaurant on Bolshaya Nikitskaya Street. At the same time, a large and noisy company of natives of the Caucasus was resting in the neighborhood, who were celebrating a birthday.
At about 11 pm, the visitors began to disperse, both companies began to leave the establishment at the same time. Already on the street, a conflict broke out between the basketball player and unknown persons, during which the athlete received several blows to the head, and in the end one of the attackers threw him over the thigh.
During the fall, the Swede hit his head. Witnesses called an ambulance and the police. Before the arrival of the doctors, the athlete's friends and restaurant staff surrounded him to prevent the continuation of the beating — every now and then strangers ran up to him and tried to hit him. Blood flowed from the wounded man's ear, but he did not lose consciousness.
Doctors provided the necessary first aid on the spot and the patient, accompanied by his wife, was taken to the hospital, but the basketball player refused to go to the medical facility. Already from home in a private ambulance, the athlete was taken to a private clinic, where he was placed in the surgical department. In addition to a fracture of the temporal bone, doctors diagnosed an open craniocerebral injury, a fracture of the base of the skull and amnesia — memory loss.
The company that attacked the athlete was seen in this restaurant for the first time. One of them was called «Prince». The basketball player was a regular customer in this institution.
MK Reference: Alexey Shved is a Russian basketball player, now plays for CSKA Moscow, previously played for the Khimki team. Before that, he spent three seasons in the NBA: two with the Minnesota Timberwolves, and the third with three clubs at once — the Philadelphia Seventy Sixers, the Houston Rockets and the New York Knicks. As part of the Russian national basketball team, he won bronze medals at the 2012 Olympic Games and the 2011 European Championship. On August 20, 2012, after the successful performance of the Russian national basketball team at the 2012 Olympics, Shved was awarded the title of Honored Master of Sports of Russia.