An arena fight in Pokémon GO escalates: 75-year-old should now go to prison for 3 days

On By Garmin Philip
An arena fight in Pokémon GO escalates: 75-year-old should now go to prison for 3 days

In Pokémon GO, you can earn in-game currency by capturing Gyms. Such a fight erupted in 2018 in the United States, in the city of St. Louis. Fistfights ensued. Now one of the perpetrators is going to jail.

Who is the person you are talking about? A jury in the US issued a jail recommendation for a 75-year-old Pokémon GO player. In addition, he and his son should pay a fine.

A Pokémon GO Arena battle that was supposed to be handled within the game using Pokémon turned into a real-life battle.

Three people fought in the water, bystanders had to intervene

This is how it went: In 2018, Robert Matteuzzi (75) and his son Angelo (35) wanted to take over an arena in Kirkwood Park, St. Louis, Missouri. However, a member of a rival team known as “Sammy the Bull” also wanted to grab the arena.

According to the victim, a dispute developed between the coaches over the arena, which led to Angelo Matteuzzi beating him. That reports St. Louis Post Dispatch.

In Pokémon GO, a trainer can choose between team red, yellow or blue at the beginning. If you then encounter a different-colored arena held by another team with defenders, you can use your attackers to fight those defenders. If you defeat them all, the arena is ‘free’ and the attacker can use a Pokémon from his collection as a defender there. The arena then turns the color of the team and can be attacked again after a short time.
Putting your Pokémon in captured Gyms earns you PokéCoins. You can use the coins to buy interesting items such as raid passes, incubators and other content in the in-game shop.

The situation at the St. Louis arena then escalated into a major scramble, with the victim and Angelo Matteuzi falling into a lake about five feet deep. One of the bystanders filmed it. The video showed the police in the court. In the video you can see how the two Matteuzzis hit the victim several times and hold him in the water.

On the video’s audio track, the person on the outside can be heard yelling, “Get out of here right now,” while a younger voice yells, “Dad, don’t interfere!” The fight was then ended by the outsider who broke the parties apart.

According to witnesses, the victim suffered facial abrasions, a traumatic eye injury, a broken fingertip and a severed fingernail.

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This was the negotiation: The defense argued that the two Matteuzzis did not start the fight. Robert testified: He didn’t want to be in the water at all.

When prosecutors then reminded him that he jumped to his son, he said, “When you’re 71 and you get hit on the head, you don’t know what you’re doing.”

On the witness stand, the father admitted to holding the victim’s head under water: “I just wanted to submerge him.”

The son said in court: “I just wanted to take my Pokémon to the gym.” The fight happened on Father’s Day of all times, which is really not a good day to fight with who, as he now knows.

Other witnesses who were on the victim’s Pokémon team testified in court: a police officer and an ambulance doctor. They stopped the fight at that point.

Another Matteuzzi family member testifies as a witness for the father-son team and recounted an earlier incident between the two Pokémon teams.

Although the incident happened in 2018, the jury’s recommended sentence was not announced until October 26. They recommended three days in jail for Robert and a fine for both Matteuzzis.

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