“He was attacked by several people.” Basketball player beaten again in Russia
Marat Araslanov August 2, 2023, 18:15 Moscow time Audio version: Your browser does not support the audio element.
Nikita Shabalkin ended up in the hospital.
While Russian club basketball is at the stage of coming out of hibernation after the summer offseason, and the national team in an almost youth format is preparing for friendly matches with Iran, the information space was again seen agitated by the news about the fight. of the European champion Nikita Shabalkin.
It is true that the information received in the first hours was different. According to one version, Shabalkin, who completed his professional career for 10 years, fell out with the owner of a car wash in the Moscow region. According to another, he was beaten by a group of people. But it all came down to the fact that the former player of the Russian national team had to go to the hospital, where he stayed due to his injuries. Including closed head trauma.
Nikita Shabalkin during a performance for the capital “Dynamo”
Photo: RIA Novosti
There was also a video from the hospital room. It was not easy to get rid of the parallels with Alexey Shved. Remember that after the defeat of CSKA from Lokomotiv-Kuban in the VTB United League playoffs, the defenders of the military team Alexei Shved and Artyom Komolov were attacked. The basketball players were beaten by a group of youths, both ended up in the hospital and did not play a single game in the bronze series. The attackers were arrested and the trial has not yet ended.
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But the very presence of several versions at once in the Shabalkin case aroused suspicion. Aleksey Kuzyashin, the manager who represents the interests of the basketball player, tried to explain the situation. It was from his words that it became clear that the fight really took place, but the conflict broke out due to the fact that the Honorable Master of Sports refused to pay the workers who (in his opinion) did not do the right thing. who asked for money
“This caused a very negative reaction from the contractor and led to physical actions on their part. There was a conflict, as a result of which Nikita had multiple cuts on his hands. Several people attacked him, the beating continued and there was no longer any talk of any resistance,” Kuzyashin said.
Nikita Shabalkin while playing for UNICS
Photo: RIA Novosti
In the video, which also appeared on social media, Shabalkin was sitting on a bench after the incident, a broken glass table next to him. The situation became a little clearer. According to the player’s manager, Shabalkin will write a statement to the police immediately after leaving the hospital, where he will recover.
Unfortunately, this is not the first such case for the former athlete. In March 2021, information appeared in various media that Nikita Shabalkin was hit by a taxi when a former basketball player was crossing the road near a crosswalk. Then she Shabalkin said that she really crossed the road in the wrong place and because of this she had a conflict with the driver, who then hit him with the bumper of the car.
“You can see in the video that I fell on the hood. Falling down, he hit the bumper with his fist, but this is already an accident, I got scared. And then everything – he pressed the gas pedal, I was already thinking how to get off the hood, because if he was standing on the ground, I was worried that he would run over me. I’m wrong that I crossed the street at that place, that’s for sure. Then you can see from the cameras how it developed,” Shabalkin said then.
Several basketball clubs and players with whom Nikita played during his career spoke out in support of Shabalkin. The main thing is that in the next few days the athlete will be released from the hospital and nothing endangers his life. The corresponding authorities will investigate what happened.
