CSKA and Russian national team player Alexei Shved received a severe cranial -brain injury as a result of an attack by hooligans in the center of Moscow. The basketball player is in the hospital, and the attackers have not yet been found. What happened that evening?
The club itself was the first to report Literally the day before the incident, CSKA Moscow suffered a historic defeat in the decisive match of the VTB United League semi-final against Lokomotiv-Kuban. However, the story that happened a few hours later proved once again that there are things more important than sports. The leader of CSKA was smashed in the head at a restaurant in the very center of Moscow.
«The defender of our team Alexei Shved suffered from a hooligan attack committed on him last night at the exit of one of the Moscow restaurants. The basketball player received a serious head injury and was taken to the hospital. The player turned to the police to investigate the incident,» the report says. basketball club CSKA.
The army team also said that the athlete was out of action for a long time and would probably miss the series for third place in the VTB United League. However, this no longer worried anyone, unlike the health of one of the main stars of Russian basketball. Fortunately, the president of CSKA Andrey Vatutin, in a conversation with, said that there was no threat to the Shved's life.
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“After a traumatic brain injury, he is in the hospital. As I understand it, there is no threat to life, but it will be clear today or tomorrow how seriously health has suffered. As for the circumstances and reasons for the attack, it is best to contact law enforcement. I hope that these comrades will be found and punished,” Vatutin said.
“The guys were in an inadequate state,” REN TV reported some more details of the incident. It all happened on May 1 at 23:45 in a restaurant on Bolshaya Nikitskaya Street. During the fight, the athlete was hit hard on the head, but he refused to provide medical assistance on the spot, as well as to write a statement to law enforcement agencies. The victim then went to the hospital on his own.
The player's agent Obrad Fimich told even more interesting things.
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«After dinner, Aleksei and his wife went out into the street, where a group of young people, without any reason, began to bully. The guys were clearly in an inadequate state. My client was aware of this, so he wanted to calmly disperse. But the men were determined to start a fight, in the spirit of «the best traditions of the proudest» inhabitants, that is, four or five against one. As a result, after striking in the head area, Alexei fell, hitting his head on the pavement. He received an open penetrating craniocerebral injury with fractures of the bones of the skull and a contusion of the brain! — quotes the words of Fimich «Sport Express».
The source of «SE» also noted that after the attack, the Shved was unconscious for about 20 minutes.
At the time of writing, the attackers did not detain. At the same time, the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, Irina Volk, said that the police had already begun an investigation into the Shved case. The authorities establish all the circumstances of the incident and the persons involved in the incident