Relaunched by Laurent Blanc in Ligue 1, the Jérôme Boateng case divides within Olympique Lyonnais.
German justice has just sentenced the German defender of OL to a fine of 1.2 million euros on Wednesday evening for having assaulted his ex-partner and mother of his two children in 2018.
The Munich court, which was hearing the case on appeal, ruled that the former German international, winner of the 2014 FIFA World Cup, was guilty of assault and battery and insults against this woman.
Boateng thus sees the sentence he received at first instance slightly reduced.
He was then, in September 2021, fined 1.8 million euros.
The funds must benefit, in particular, associations supporting women who are victims of violence.
The eye pushed in with the thumb
The judges did not follow the requisitions of the prosecution who had demanded an 18-month suspended prison sentence.
Jérôme Boateng rejected the charges against him during the appeal trial.
According to his ex-girlfriend, the 34-year-old hit her while on vacation in the Caribbean in 2018, after Germany's miserable first-round elimination from the World Cup in Russia.
He first threw various objects at her, poked her in the eye with his thumb, bit and pulled her hair to the ground”.
A friend of his ex-girlfriend came to testify during the appeal trial in Munich to confirm the violence.
And on this occasion she complained about the German player's security service, which she accused of having filmed him in court in an attempt to intimidate him.
What the defender's lawyers denied.