Former coach of the Russian national handball team Yevgeny Trefilov who won with the women’s team at the 2016 Olympics, believes that the American basketball player Britney Greiner condemned too harshly, although well deserved. He declared it on the air of the program “There is a theme!” on MatchTV.
On August 4, American basketball player Brittney Griner was sentenced by the Khimki City Court to 9 years in a penal colony and a fine of 1 million rubles in a drug trafficking case. Greiner was arrested in February on suspicion of trying to smuggle hash oil through Sheremetyevo airport.
What was your reaction to this whole story?
“Today, in general, there is a game without any rules,” Trefilov told . “There are kidnappings, extraditions. Snatching people up without a trial or investigation is, consider, a game with no rules. Now it’s just done. I say jokingly, the babin lights up – and you have material.
We fill out questionnaires in Russia, we filled them out so much that you press the button and it will come out. Therefore, if there is an exchange with a hostile country of any Russian person who is there in these zindans, for any person who is caught here, I think that will be progress. Let’s get at least one person.
– Is it a lot or a little – nine years?
– I think it’s too much! I don’t even know what affected the judge. Nine and a half years asked, nine gave. It’s hard for me to judge here, I’m not a lawyer. The fact that she pretty much understood what was in store for her is also understandable. Maybe they gave it a nine to get Booth processed quickly. But after all, not only is Bout sitting there, there are a lot of our guys who deserve to be here in their homeland and live normally.
Earlier, US media reported, citing a source in US President Joe Biden’s administration, that he supported plans to swap Russian Viktor Bout, who is serving a prison sentence in the US, for American citizens Greiner and Paul Whelan, who was sentenced in Russia to 16 years in prison for espionage.
Since 2015, 31-year-old Greiner has been playing for UMMC Yekaterinburg, she has twice won the Olympic Games as part of the American team (2016, 2020).
Source : MatchTV
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