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Foot: Lyonnais Jérôme Boateng tried Thursday for domestic violence

2021-09-08T10:23:40.735Z


Olympique Lyonnais defender Jérôme Boateng is due to appear before a Munich court on Thursday to answer for domestic violence on the ...


Olympique Lyonnais defender Jérôme Boateng is due to appear in court in Munich on Thursday to answer for domestic violence against the mother of his two children, facts dating back to 2018.

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The former Bayern player, whose public aura goes far beyond football, is expected in person at the hearing, according to his lawyer.

Her ex-partner accuses her of having injured her during a violent argument three years ago while on vacation.

The maximum penalty for acts of this nature is five years in prison.

A judgment could be rendered as early as Thursday.

One of the indirect issues of the trial could also be the custody of their two twins, which is the subject of a separate procedure.

Thursday's hearing, scheduled for the first time last December, was postponed due to the absence of a witness suffering from Covid-19.

World champion with Germany in 2014, Boateng has at 33 years of age millions of subscribers on social networks: an advertising icon, his name is a brand with which he also promotes his own clothing lines.

This son of a German and a Ghanaian is also a figure of diversity in Germany, invited to the chancellery by Angela Merkel after being attacked for his skin color by a far-right leader in 2016.

Restless privacy

To the point that his boss at Bayern Karl-Heinz Rummenigge had asked him a few months later to "come

down to earth

" to better concentrate on his sporting performances.

But with the approach of Thursday's trial, the player's private life has also become a subject of sometimes vigorous discussion on social networks, and is causing the press.

Earlier this year, his last girlfriend Kasia Lenhardt, whom he had just left a few days earlier, was found dead in a Berlin apartment.

Justice concluded that it was a suicide.

Boateng was at that time traveling to Qatar with Bayern where he was playing the Club World Cup.

He immediately returned to Germany.

She also accused him of having abused her, before retracting, according to the Munich daily Süddeutsche Zeitung.

On the football field, Boateng was a pillar of Bayern's golden decade, with whom he notably won two Champions Leagues and nine German league titles.

At the end of his contract with the “

Rekordmeister

”, he has just been recruited free of charge by Lyon.

Star of the national team during the world title in Brazil in 2014, he was dismissed by former coach Joachim Löw in early 2019, in the wake of the elimination in the first round of the 2018 World Cup in Russia. In his first list of nominations this week, new manager Hansi Flick did not call on him.

Source: lefigaro

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