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Elias Sha'ar, player of Queens Park Rangers and the Moroccan national team, was sentenced to a year in prison after fracturing the skull of a truck driver.
Sha'ar was sentenced to two years in prison, with the first year being suspended.
He will spend the second year in prison in Belgium.
The midfielder, married with a young son, was ordered to pay the victim £13,400.
He has been one of the standout players in the English lower league side's ranks since his debut in 2017, with the 26-year-old making 222 appearances for QPR in his career, including 31 this season , with five goals and four assists. As mentioned, he is also a player in the Moroccan team, and played in the 2022 World Cup in Qatar where his team finished in fourth place.
Denied he was the one who hit the rock.
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For now he remains in England, despite sustaining a serious injury on a kayaking trip four years ago.
He even started in the QPR lineup today (Saturday) against Rotherham in the Championship.
KPR published a club statement in which it clarified that it would not give a further response because "the legal process has not yet come to an end."
At a trial in Antwerp, his hometown, it was alleged that Shaar, along with his brother Jabbar and a group of friends, argued with the driver in Basel, France, in the summer of 2020. Jabbar was given a six-month suspended sentence and a £700 fine.
All involved were waiting for the bus Back to Belgium, and after the fight that broke out, the truck driver suffered a serious two-centimeter skull fracture and was taken to the hospital in Reims in critical condition. "After that, he had to recover for a long time in a hospital in Belgium, and could not do his job as a truck driver for a long time," the house claimed The sentence, "The blow was almost fatal for him, and he still feels the after-effects."
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According to the testimony, a woman in a bikini lashed out, hit, scratched and bit others when she demanded to be the first to board the bus.
"This led to an altercation with other people who were waiting, including the victims, Nils T (the driver), his sister Elin T and another person," the prosecutor said.
"The woman in the green bikini behaved very aggressively and things quickly escalated, as she lashed out at the victims and their children."
A big fight broke out, and Shaar allegedly took a chair, grabbed a rock and hit Niles T, who knocked him unconscious.
He denied being the man who used the rock and asked for a retrial with another lawyer, but the request was denied.
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