By Eurohoops Team/ info@eurohoops.net
Partizan Mozzart Bet’s big man Mathias Lessort heavily pushed Crvena Zvezda Meridianbet’s Filip Petrusev after the final buzzer of the Belgrade derby, which ended in favor of the Frenchman’s team.
Lessort issued a public statement saying he didn’t attack the Serbian center but reacted. Crvena Zvezda responded quickly with another official announcement, accusing their former player of lying.
“Crvena Zvezda Meridianbet is shocked by the lies stated by Partizan’s first team player and sort of a new leader of the southern stand fans, Mathias Lessort.
We thought after this statement in which gross falsehoods were stated according to which the Serbian national team player and Crvena Zvezda first team member Filip Petrusev ‘hit and cut breathing’ to the victim Mathias Lessort, that perhaps we should apologize to the man who is in the middle of Belgrade as a guest on temporary work in Serbia, and like on the street attacked a Serbian national team player with his fists.
“Heartbreaking” (and untrue) confession by Mathias Lessort, whom this is not the first time causing incidents (we will remind you of the game in the final series of the ABA League last season when he started a confrontation with the fans in Pionir, embarrassing pictures with the Serbian national team members Kalinić and Petrusev, hitting Campazzo in Nis), he will have the opportunity to repeat it before the competent authorities, because according to the laws of the Republic of Serbia, where he earns (big) money, he will be obliged to give a statement about the physical attack on the player Filip Petrusev, after which the Prosecutor’s Office will decide to initiate criminal charges.
On this occasion, we would like to inform the public that Filip Petrusev, a member of the Serbian national team and first team member of Crvena Zvezda, will make a statement on the premises of the city’s Ministry of Internal Affairs on Wednesday.
Crvena Zvezda Meridianbet reminds that it demanded from the leaders of the ABA league a suspension until the end of the season for Mathias Lessort. Unfortunately, there are videos of alleged “defense” with manly fist punches!” as stated in the public announcement of Crvena Zvezda.
Previously, Zeljko Obradovic apologized to Filip Petrusev, and Crvena Zvezda asked for Lessort to be suspended until the end of the season, while Partizan officially stated that the French player will be internally sanctioned.