Sasha Zakrevska, AKA Poly Chain, accuses Stanislav Tolkachev of physical assault and homophobia
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- Shared via Instagram, the allegations centre around a party at Paris club L'International on November 13th.
- Sasha Zakrevska, AKA Poly Chain, has accused Stanislav Tolkachev of physically assaulting her and another person, as well as making homophobic comments. Published on December 2nd via the Poly Chain Instagram account, the allegations centre on a party at Paris club L'International on Saturday, November 13th. Zakrevska had been booked to DJ. (Because the post was made via Instagram Stories, it disappeared after 24 hours.) In the post, Zakrevska said she was romantically involved with Tolkachev when the alleged incident occurred. They had been sharing a studio and a flat for a year, she told Resident Advisor. "After my DJ set I came to the backstage, been ready to go home and finally rest," she wrote on Instagram. "Stan ignored my concerns about his consumption of alcohol and other substances, and continued a heavy usage throughout the night." According to Zakrevska, Tolkachev then got into a discussion with a friend of theirs, referred to simply as Person B. (Person B's partner, Person A, was also allegedly present at the incident.) Though initially peaceful, their interaction quickly "escalated into an aggresive behaviour of Stan towards Person B," Zakrevska wrote. She continued: "I came closer to Stan and asked him louder if we can already go home. At this moment he pushed me away so hard I almost fell down on the floor. Person B immediately reacted, she gave Stan a slap. Stanislav hit her so hard she had a brain conclusion [sic]. After this Person A and Person B also get lots of homophobic comments from Stan." RA spoke to Person A and Person B, who both asked to remain anonymous. They corroborated Zakrevska's story, with Person A adding that Person B was "disoriented" and "almost passed out" from Tolkachev's blow. The next day, Person B "couldn't leave the bed" and felt "drowsiness, nausea and dizziness from the hit." Person B said she had "headaches the full week after." Regarding the homophobic comments, both Person A and Person B said that Tolkachev called them a "lesbian breed" after he hit Person B. RA spoke to another witness, who also asked to remain anonymous. They said they saw Tolkachev slapping Person B "really hard," but didn't hear any homophobic comments. Nathan Zahef, the DJ who played before Zakrevska at L'International, told RA that he didn't see the incident, but he heard about it later. Person B also told RA that Tolkachev "verbally assaulted" Zahef "in a very brutal and dehumanising way, making him leave the party." (Tolkachev denied speaking to Zahef in this way.) "All I can say is Stanislav is a disrespectful asshole," Zahef told RA. RA put all of the above accusations to Tolkachev. He replied with a statement, which corroborates that he and Zakrevska had been previously romantically involved and were living together. (After sharing it with RA, Tolkachev posted the statement via his personal Facebook page and as a publicly available Google Doc. Names have been changed to protect anonymity.) "It looks like someone is trying to take away from me the most precious thing—the opportunity to calmly make and share my art," the statement opened. "I need support." About the incident in Paris, Tolkachev said "everyone drank and gradually got drunk" and that he and Person B got into an argument backstage. He said Zakrevska intervened but he didn't mention pushing her. He said Person B then hit him in the face. "I feel humiliated," he wrote. "I wait a few seconds, sit down closer to Person B, warn her that I will now answer with a slap, just little symbolic slap, with my fingers. Then I slapped her. Everyone starts to go crazy, scream, pour water over me, juice and shit around. I sat motionless, I had to endure it all. And when everyone calmed down, I asked Person B to sit next to me, she sat down, I hugged her, tried to calm her down and apologized." Tolkachev said he regretted "everything that happened between all of us that night," but Zavreska's story was "exaggerated" and contained "deliberate lies." Regarding hitting Person B, he said "there can be no concussion because of this." He also denied making homophobic comments. "I believe that if Person B hadn't hit me first, then there would be nothing to discuss here," he concluded. "Everyone was drunk. I also suffered that night. It is a mistake to turn this episode, unpleasant for all of us, into a personal tragedy of our entire life." At the end of Zakrevska's Instagram Stories post, she described Tolkachev as an "unhealthy manipulative person who can be dangerous to others." She added: "Personally I think he needs to seek professional help in order to prevent this situations from happening in future." Read Zakrevska's post in full.
Read Tolkachev's full statement here.
- Sat, Nov 13, 2021
Poly Chain (DIE Orakel, Kiev), Nathan Zahef (La Forge), STL-P
Poly Chain, Nathan Zahef, STL-P