He will explain himself to justice.
Olympique Lyonnais defender Jérôme Boateng is due to appear before a Munich court on Thursday to answer for domestic violence on the mother of his two children, facts dating back to 2018. The former Bayern player, whose notoriety greatly exceeds the world of 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 this 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 in December, had been postponed due to the absence of a witness suffering from Covid-19.
Jerome Boateng and his ex-partner, here in 2018, had twins.
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World champion with Germany in 2014, the new OL player at 33 has millions of subscribers on social networks.
Icon of advertising, 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. To the point that his Bayern boss Karl-Heinz Rummenigge 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.
His last girlfriend committed suicide
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.
