On Wednesday, a father and his son were found guilty by American justice of an attack committed in June 2018 in a place known to be an arena. Pokémon GO. And the violence arises precisely from a dispute linked to this strategic point.
Few years ago, Pokémon GO it was still a phenomenon capable of arousing passions at this point. Kirkwood Park in the US state of Missouri is a seemingly popular arena for app gamers. A place containing a gym that, in June 2018, had been at the center of a serious altercation.
A man, now 35, had tried to claim the park from another player’s Pokémon GO. The latter claims that the 30-year-old started beating him and that a fight broke out. The two men ended up falling about five feet, landing in the park’s Lake Walker.
Violence between Pokémon GO players: father and son plead innocent
The violence did not stop there, because the father of the thirty-year-old, now 75 years old, intervened. He too would hit the other player. In court, father and son pleaded not guilty to third-degree assault charges. However, a video shows the two men beating their victim, who was also kept underwater. She was the person who filmed the scene that separated the men.
“I didn’t want to be in the water”said the father. His son, on his part, assures us that he wanted it “Put it simply [son] Pokémon in the gym “.
The injuries were many for the victim, who thus found himself with “abrasions to the face, a traumatic injury to the eye, a broken fingertip and a detached fingernail”. According to the family of the defendants, it was not the first time that these two teams of players clashed.
After convicting both defendants on Wednesday, the jury recommended a three-day prison sentence and a fine for the father of the family. In the meantime, the son could be fined and escape prison.
Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch
