The head coach of the Russian national team and the Russian Premier League (RPL) “Rostov” club Valery Karpin shared his views on the words of striker Alexander Kokorin that every normal person should be in prison at least once in his life.
“I don’t know what he really meant to say, but if he spoke in such a way, of course I disagree. If the message is that it could be a lesson because something bad happened to you in life and in prison, then yes, I agree. But you don’t have to go to jail to do that. Any adverse event can be a lesson for a person without imprisonment,” says Karpin quotes “Match TV”.
In October 2018, Pavel Mamaev, the Kokorin brothers and their friend Alexander Protasovitsky became defendants in a criminal case involving two fights in the center of Moscow. At one of the institutions in Moscow, Kokorin was injured in the head, hitting Denis Pak, the head of the department of the Ministry of Industry and Trade, with a chair.
They were sentenced to actual jail terms in May 2019. Mamaev and Protasovitsky received 1 year and 5 months in the general regime colony, the Kokorin brothers – 1.5 years each. They were released on parole in September 2019.
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