A scandal broke out on Sunday evening at the European Basketball Championship in Tbilisi, Georgia.

According to several media reports, there was a physical altercation in the dressing room after hosts Georgia defeated Turkey 88-83.

According to the Turkish assistant coach, the Turkish professional Furkan Korkmaz is said to have messed with three Georgians.

In addition to players, security forces are said to have been involved in the attack.

The European basketball association Fiba Europe has now also started investigations.

After all the facts have been collected, a statement will be made, the association announced on Monday.

According to the basketball portal "Eurohoops", Turkey's Vice President Omer Onan threatened late Sunday evening: "If we don't get the material from the security cameras, we will leave this tournament." Georgia coach Ilias Zouros said in the press conference after the game that he had nothing to do with it witnessed such an incident.

For Turkey, the narrow defeat after two overtime was the first of the tournament.

There had already been heated arguments on the field between players from both teams.

Excitement also in Cologne

There was also a possible rule violation.

In the fourth quarter the clock ticked down a full 22 seconds from 4:48 to 4:26 minutes, although the game was interrupted after a tussle between Furkan Korkmaz and Duda Sanadze.

Turkey lost after two overtimes and then protested the score of the match.

In basketball, the clock is usually stopped when the game is paused.

In the afternoon, there had already been an obvious mistake by the referees in the German game in Cologne.

The Lithuanians were denied a due free throw after a technical foul by the German bench.

For a long time it was unclear whether the German victory of 109:107 (96:96, 89:89, 46:41) would last after two overtimes because Lithuania had also lodged a protest.

On Monday night, the world association Fiba announced that the protest had been rejected.

The competent single judge considered this "inadmissible" because the reasoning had not been received within the set time limit of 60 minutes.

The potential missing point for Lithuania could have been game-changing as Germany's 109-107 victory was only certain after two overtimes.

Fiba also stated that the protest would not have been successful even if the reason had been given in good time, "since the reason given is not one of the reasons for which a protest can be lodged".

After three wins from three games, Germany has already qualified for the final round in Berlin.

Lithuania has lost all three games and has to worry about reaching the round of 16.