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With diplomatic interventions ended the basketball tournament "Acropolis", which was held for the 24th time in Athens. The match between the national teams of Greece and Serbia was terminated two minutes before the end when on the course of OAKA started to look like a boxing ring. Photographs and video from the excesses on the floor toured worldwide and a lead "character" in them is the Serb Nenad Krstich. Krstich is throwing fists in all directions and hits on the head with a chair the player from the Greek national team Burusich, and eventually makes him bleed. Shameful event of the tournament "Acropolis" was undertaken by the sports prosecutor Costas Simitzoglou. He ordered Nenad Krstich to be arrested and presented before the police department of sports aggression. So the player of Oklahoma Tander was arrested at his hotel and sent for interrogation in the police station...

The echoes of fists in OAKA came quickly to the Serbian diplomatic circles. In Belgrade was decided not to wait for the problem to grow further and asked the Minister of Youth and Sports Snezana Samardzic-Markovic to deal with the case during her visit in Athens. At her request the national team player was released and is currently under the protection of the Serbian embassy. For the release of Krstich also helped the fact that due to strong bleeding Burusich did not appear in the police station to file a complaint.

Althou friendly the match of the tournament had the nature of a Derby. Both teams went hand in hand in the score, and the hosts often had some minor advantage. The spark on the course was fired by a quarrel between the players of Panathinaikos, Fotsis and the white-red Teodosich. The Serb hit Fotsis in the jaw, and he in turn answered in the same way... Both of them rolled up their sleeves to fight and the embarrassing situation loomed large and turned the course into a ring. Later in the battle joined raging Krstich, Shortsianitis and Keseli. The situation calmed down briefly after the intervention of the coach of the Greek nationals Jonas Kazlauskas and the coach of Olympiakos Dusan Ivkovich. The fight, however did not end there. After the teams withdrew Yannis Burusich followed by Vassilis Spanoulis rushed into the locker room of the Serbs and attacked in words Krstich. Spanoulis’ attempts to calm down his teammate did not help...

What would be the consequences of these shameful scenes is expected to be seen soon. It is possible that the Greek and Serbian players who participated in the excesses to be eliminated from the World Basketball Championship in Turkey. The Hellenic Basketball Federation argues there is no such risk. FIBA, however, threatens to deal with the case ...