“It can be pure provocation.” Zhurova – about the arrest of basketball player Kasatkin in France

The situation with the detention of the Russian basketball player Daniil Kasatkin in France may be a common provocation, the State Duma deputy Svetlana Zhurova said Match TV.

On Wednesday, the French media reported that 26 -year -old Kasatkin was arrested in France at the request of the United States in connection with suspicion of involvement in cybercrime. He is suspected of participating in a hacker network engaged in extortion. The athlete does not admit his guilt. The basketball player was detained in June at the Paris airport, where he arrived with his bride.

– When this happens, you understand that when we used to go abroad, we had a complete briefing since the time of the Soviet Union. We have always been warned about all possible provocations. We were told not to take anything from anyone. So if we read the truth about how a computer with a hacker program could get to the athlete, this can be pure provocation. That is, this computer was sold in advance in advance. The question is why he led to this. You can buy a new one. Now, if the program was inserted into the new computer, he could have presented the seller, and then there was no one to show – only to himself, he bought some incomprehensible laptop from his hands. This is a serious question. Although this is happening.

It can be as with doping. Someone mixed you up. But you have to be very neat, monitor your drinks and so on. This is on your responsibility. And even WADA always says about this that this is the responsibility of the athlete. Of course, then you will try to prove that you are not to blame, but you will initially be to blame. Then you will have to explain how the prohibited substance hit the body. Here is about the same. You have to be very neat.

And, of course, this is now in the hands of the entire propaganda information war. Once again, we can say that the athletes do not go there. Plus, the same Ukraine is interested in not letting ours into Europe. So it can even be a purely planned story. But there may be absolute negligence, and the guy just got into this scheme. Maybe an accident. Now they will find out where he bought this computer and how. If someone offered him to buy on the Internet, and he was commanded, then this is generally … not at that time he lives, apparently. Now you have to be very careful with phones, computers and so on – even with the sites that you watch. Everything is fixed everywhere. All this can end very badly, ”said Zhurova“ Match TV ”.

Last season, Kasatkin played for the MBA -May in the Unified VTB league.