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Jérôme Boateng on the way to the trial
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The appeal process against the former national soccer player Jérôme Boateng has begun at the Munich I district court.
Last year, the district court sentenced him to a fine of 1.8 million euros for bodily harm.
At the time, the judge saw it as proven that Boateng, who is now under contract with Olympique Lyon, hit his ex-girlfriend on a holiday together in 2018.
Defender Gelbart: "We hope for a fairer process"
Because both Boateng, who denies the allegations, as well as the public prosecutor and the co-plaintiff have appealed, there is now a new hearing.
"We hope for a fairer process," Boateng's new defense attorney Norman Nathan Gelbart told the dpa news agency before the trial began.
The district court had imposed a fine of 60 daily rates of 30,000 euros each.
This is the highest possible daily rate, but Boateng would not have a criminal record.
Only from 90 daily rates is one considered a criminal record.
The public prosecutor's office, which assumes dangerous bodily harm, had demanded a suspended sentence of one and a half years and a fine of 1.5 million euros, Boateng's then defense attorney Kai Walden an acquittal.
Two days of negotiations are scheduled for the new process.
The verdict is expected to fall this Friday.
bbr/dpa
