Peter Sagan has significantly disputed the account of his confrontation with the police in Monaco during Covid-19 curfew in April of this year.
It emerged in media reports yesterday he had been fined for breaking the curfew and also fined as he had clashed with a police officer and injured the officer's hand.
It was stated Sagan had been at a nightclub, had been drinking and was being taken from a car by the police when a struggle ensued, during which the officer injured his hand.
However, Sagan has now said he wasn't even in a car at the time of the incident, adding he had not been to a nightclub earlier and was only traveling 500 metres when the incident occurred.
The Slovakian also said he decided to break curfew and go the short distance from his ex-wife's home to his own apartment, because his own home was where he said he would be on his whereabouts anti doping paperwork, which he needed to comply with.
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His version of accounts, given in a statement to cyclingnews, contradicts even the basic facts around the incident that emerged in the French media before being reported by the cycling media.
“I’d been at my ex-wife's apartment to put my son to bed," Sagan said today. "I had a couple of glasses of wine and then decided to return to my apartment even though the nighttime curfew had begun. I needed to go home because it’s my address for anti-doping controls.
“I travelled the 500 metres between the apartments on an electric scooter driven by brother Juraj. I wasn’t driving and wasn’t in a car, and so didn’t undergo an alcohol test.
"But the police wanted to take me to hospital to carry out a drug test which I didn’t understand. That’s what I was angry about and led me to push the police officer. I’m very sorry about the whole incident.”
At the court hearing it was suggested Sagan got involved in a scuffle with the police as he believed they were taking him to hospital for a compulsory vaccine. Sagan also told cyclingnews that he was not anti-vaccine. He confirmed he now has his full vaccine and Covid-19 pass.
