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Process in Munich: Jérôme Boateng accompanied by the security service
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After an incident with Jérôme Boateng's security service, the Munich I public prosecutor's office began investigations into several suspected participants.
"We have initiated proceedings here on suspicion of violation of the most personal sphere of life through image recordings in accordance with Section 201a of the Criminal Code," said a spokeswoman for the authorities.
She did not say how many people the investigation was aimed at.
»It will largely depend on what can be seen on the recordings.«
The background is an incident last Friday in the Munich criminal justice center on the second day of the trial against the 2014 soccer world champion for assault.
A witness stated in the proceedings that she had been filmed entering the courthouse and felt threatened.
Law enforcement officials then determined the personal details of the people allegedly involved in the incident.
The public prosecutor had requested that the personal details be determined on the grounds that a criminal offense or the preparation of a criminal offense could have occurred.
The woman, who said in court that she had seen Boateng attack, hit and insult her former girlfriend while on vacation in the Caribbean, burst into tears on the witness stand.
"You're just afraid," she said, "that you'll be threatened or that your family will be threatened."
Boateng denies the allegations.
The presumption of innocence applies to him until the final conclusion of the proceedings.
After determining the personal details, his lawyers emphasized that a security service, which had already looked after their client at the start of the trial the day before, had only “determined the environment” in order to be able to assess “Boateng’s security situation”.
It was a matter of pure »object clarification« and the witness was not specifically filmed and was only filmed from behind.
The trial against Boateng is scheduled to continue on November 2 at the Munich I Regional Court.
Last year, the district court sentenced Boateng to a fine of 1.8 million euros – 60 daily rates of 30,000 euros each – for bodily harm.
At the time, the judge saw it as proven that the longtime international, who is now under contract with Olympique Lyonnais, punched his ex-girlfriend in the face during a holiday together in 2018.
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