beating the neighbors
Russian champion Alexander Hytte attacked his neighbors at the end of May 2022, but the incident became known only on June 3. TASS reported that on May 23, the police station in the Vsevolozhsky district of the Leningrad region received a phone call from the hospital and said that a man born in 1957 was taken to the hospital. He was diagnosed with closed craniocerebral injury, fracture of the walls of the right eye socket and trauma to the paranasal sinuses.
“The victim was hospitalized with moderate severity and said he was beaten by an unidentified person at the front door of house 137 on Primorsky Prospekt in St. Petersburg,” the source said.
Then, on May 23, law enforcement learned that a woman had been beaten at the front door of the house where the man had been attacked. The police were also contacted from the hospital, and the victim was diagnosed with a hematoma in his right eye and bruises on the soft tissues of the head and neck. The woman was allowed to go home after her treatment.
“At 16:20 on the same day, Alexander Yevgenyevich Khytte, born in 1988, was detained on suspicion of committing a crime and taken to the police station. On May 25, a criminal case was brought against him under Part 1 of Article 111 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (intentional grievous bodily harm – up to about 8 years in prison -),” said a TASS source.
On June 3, Mash on the Moika Telegram channel published the details of what happened. According to the source, Hutte attacked the man first: he suddenly hit his neighbor in the head in the elevator, followed by an ongoing fight in the stairwell.
Hütte, who was wearing only shorts during the attack, inflicted a few more blows on the man’s head. After a while, the athlete attacked the woman.
On June 19, St. A court in St. Petersburg found Hutte guilty, the athlete was sentenced to two years in prison. It is also obliged to pay the victims 40,221 rubles to compensate for material damage and 450,000 rubles to compensate for moral damage. The athlete only partially admitted his guilt.
Criminal case for drugs
The neighbor beating was not the first in Hütte’s criminal history. A year before the attack, the athlete went to St. Petersburg because a bag containing a banned drug was found in his sneakers. Petersburg, he was detained.
“At 17:05 on September 21, in house number 41 on Planernaya Street, a police patrol detained Hutte Alexander Evgenievich, a native of Petrozavodsk, who lives in the Primorsky district of St. Petersburg, on suspicion of an administrative violation.” KP-Petersburg reported in 2021.
The athlete refused to be examined, but told law enforcement that he ordered a drug (mephedrone) online.
While the athlete could be sentenced to three years in prison for the article “Illegal acquisition, storage, transportation, manufacture, processing of drugs, psychotropic substances or similar,” a criminal case was filed against him.
Hütte managed to escape the penalty because the crime was not considered serious, and the athlete’s lawyer petitioned for the case to be dropped. The Champion of Russia presented a document to the court confirming that he did not use drugs, and also made a number of donations to charities. In this regard, the court limited itself to a fine of 15 thousand rubles.
In 2021, the All-Russian Athletic Federation refused to comment on the detention and criminal case against Hytte, saying that they knew nothing about the athlete after his disqualification from 2015 to 2019.
“We have no information about him. He was removed from all national team lists from the moment the disqualification began. We do not know what the athlete is doing further. He is an adult and should be responsible for his own behavior. ARAF remains committed to the principle of zero tolerance for doping and does not tolerate violations of anti-doping rules. finds it absolutely unacceptable, regardless of dress and merit,” he said.
Doping ban and contacts with World Athletics
A four-time Russian champion in running, Hütte won the European Championship team championship in 2011. Suspended from 2015 to 2019 for use of prohibited substances by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and non-participation in doping testing. Hutte didn’t have the money to hire a lawyer to help shorten the time, but he went the other way.
The athlete corresponded with the officials of the International Athletics Federation, this became known in 2017. The athlete assured that illegal drugs got into his body because of the trainer Zukhra Vereshchagina, who forced him to take drugs. Hütte said that other athletes in the coaching group also used doping. But working as an informant didn’t help him mitigate the sentence.
“On May 22, 2015, officers from the international company IDTM arrived in Sochi. I was on the must-sampling list. I verified my name, signed the protocol, and even had time to take the sample if I hadn’t been in the bathroom half an hour ago. Then I started getting text messages from the coach saying it was impossible to get tested for doping anyway. I asked: “What should I do? They’re here, I’ve already signed everything. “How many,” he said. I went to breakfast and quickly went up the stairs there,” Hytte said in an interview with Sport Express in April 2017.
The athlete said that after that the coach still asked him to go back and get a sample, and he did. It was this test that gave a positive result for a banned drug. Hutte did not return to the sport after being disqualified and ended his career in 2019.
In 2016, the episode of an athlete’s flight was included in Dick Pound’s report on doping in Russian sports. However, it was stated that Hutte, unlike the athlete’s own version, escaped from the investigators through the window.