An MMA fighter released from custody sent his version: I was wrong, but I was only defending my girlfriend

As already announced, around 2.50 pm In Vilnius, S. Neries str. a resident (born in 1992) told the police that “the neighbor V. Jagėlo, who had entered, had not beaten her from here or there; hit her hands: hit various parts of her body (face, hands, etc.) ”and hit her husband and girlfriend. After receiving medical care, both women were released for treatment at home.

V. Jagėlo claims that he was also injured, and not only he but also his friend turned to the police for violence.

– Tell us how you found yourself on S. Neries street, even if you don’t live there.

– My friend Anastasia’s friend, Victoria, lives there, she offered us to celebrate the end of the year together and to welcome the coming year on New Year’s Eve. We arrived around 8 pm-9pm when the party was already in full swing. There was also a friend of Victoria’s and another girl named Katryna; I didn’t know any of them.

I will not hide, it was a very strange party – Victoria constantly clarified the relationship with her friend, that is, there were endless love dramas. And that other girlfriend, Katryna, was in a bad mood, complaining that she had been dumped by a boy and constantly insulting me, for some reason I didn’t like her. She said, maybe you don’t drink anymore, because you’re a boxer, and then you’re already stupid, what else do you drink with us here, you’ll get even more rigid … And it was repeated.

– Why?

– I don’t know why she clung to me, maybe the alcohol affected her so much … After midnight, when we welcomed the New Year, we jumped, and then Catherine came up to me and said: “Well, you, hit me, hit me “. I told him to get away from me but he started threatening not to talk to him like that because his friends would come and deal with me soon, that they didn’t care that I was an athlete at all. I no longer paid attention to him, he just calmed down.

And then my friend said she was going to the bedroom to go to bed. And a friend of Victoria’s followed her. I was very surprised. And soon I heard a noise, I ran and saw that he was stalking my girlfriend. And before that I had already realized this: when we were dancing, he was pinching or flapping my butt … I was silent, but when I saw a picture like that and yelling in the room … And then that guy hit in the face twice. I crossed it back, two or three times.

And immediately Katryna ran out of the kitchen, she had a knife in her hand. I realized that he wanted to pierce me because he had raised his hand and pointed the blade of the knife at me. There was no time to think what to do, I grabbed the blade and took the knife away, at the same time I gave her two blows, because otherwise, I think she would not have given me the knife freely, she would probably have stabbed me.

Everything happened very fast, it was a matter of seconds, I remember Victoria hitting me on the back. I told my friend to get out of here, I’m all cut off, my hand was bleeding profusely.

– Do you think he would have stabbed you?

– Probably yes, because Katryna really did behave in an inappropriate way. He found no place all night; It occurred to him, it is something else, the impression that she caused me. So I had to remove the knife because it was clear, either she was me or I was her.

– Did you leave the apartment or did you wait for the police, the doctors?

– No, we didn’t wait, we ran away, I didn’t even have time to put on my shoes. I didn’t want to be around anymore because Victoria’s friend was still trying to attack me. I don’t know how it would all have ended if we had stayed.

When I left I took a knife, I knew the police would be called, so I wanted it to be evidence, I was even afraid to think about the stories they might have created to accuse me. There were Katrina’s fingerprints on the knife. I don’t know, maybe it’s wrong for me to take the knife, but after all, they could have hidden the knife and said I came with my knife.

When we got to our house, we were contacted by the police, we met immediately and they took me to the police station. It was around 3pm at night, and he ran only around 6pm – I just got home.

I’m very sorry that this happened, I understand that I did bad things, we did not choose those friends. And my girlfriend feels sorry for going to celebrate the New Year.

– Where is the knife now?

– I immediately gave it to the police when I arrived, I told them what had happened.

– Now that you’ve been released, haven’t you tried to talk to the victims?

– No, I did not speak, now I am prohibited from communicating with them and approaching them. But I saw an article online where they told a lot of lies: I don’t know why they behave like this, maybe they want to be popular or get money from me. It is difficult to say why they lie (in one way it is described in one article, in another) in police documents.

I read an article that during this conflict, a girl even knelt so that I would not hit the children. But what are those children with? Yes, they were at home, but no one even touched those children with their finger. Who should they talk such nonsense to?

– Have you been a police suspect?

– Yes, for the mild disorder and the use of physical violence. But I also wrote the statement myself, because I also suffered. They (the victims) wrote to the police that I attacked them with a knife, but that was not the case! I didn’t attack anything, I was attacked and I just wanted to defend my girlfriend. And when I started defending her, all that chaos started, it hit me, I came back, then I ran with a knife …

– How much did you drink?

– Before the New Year, I drank maybe five glasses of whiskey and then champagne. And they – plus, besides, they stirred alcohol … The police put me 1.09 per thousand, said I look sober. I don’t usually drink, just occasionally, on vacation. But now I probably won’t drink anything; In those circuses, alcohol is of no use, because there can always be provocateurs who can attack even after that.

– Was it not possible to avoid this conflict?

“He wouldn’t have hit anything if he hadn’t been attacked or harassed by a friend.” Of course some alcohol worked too, so I reacted that way.

– And the blows were strong? After all, you are a boxer.

– Definitely not, not like in sports.

– But is it said that you knocked one of the girls’ teeth?

– No, I just came in. Here for Katryna – the one who attacked me with a knife. I hit him on the left hand and hit him on the nose. And I didn’t hit Victoria at all, she says she injured her finger, but I didn’t really do anything to her with a knife.

This event is a very painful lesson for me. I met the new year in police custody, I had a lot of time to think about everything and I realized that I would no longer celebrate any holiday outside my company. You just need to have fun with those you know well, and better yet not celebrate.

– And especially now that the quarantine has been announced – even though you knew it was forbidden to visit friends, you broke the rules.

– Yes, the police told me that. We’d better stay home, but Victoria was very welcome to come. And we really wanted to get out of the house ourselves, we sat for a long time closed. It’s a shame it turned out like this.

– I see that you also suffered injuries – you cut your hand when you grabbed the knife, and your head?

– He’s been here since those two blows hit me by a friend of Victoria’s. And the hand was seriously injured, even the wound had to be sutured.

And my friend was injured, she also wrote a statement to the police because that guy pinched her legs, hurt them and hit her legs once during those fights.

– What will you do next?

– I want it to finish as soon as possible. And forget everything. I realize I did the wrong thing, but even now I don’t know what else I had to do; after all, i saw how i hurt my friend and then i hit my head. Did I have to turn around and leave? I do not think so.