Admin I Friday, July 19, 2024
MUNICH – Former Germany footballer Jérôme Boateng has been given a suspended fine for assaulting an ex-partner, a court in Munich ruled on Friday.
Boateng will only have to pay €200,000 ($218,000) in fines if he commits another offence.
Presiding judge Susanne Hemmerich said “there is nothing left of the accusation of being a notorious wife-beater.”
The public prosecutor had demanded a fine of €1.12 million, while the defence had argued for a “moderate fine” due to a scuffle between both parties.
Boateng denied hitting his former partner and throwing a lantern and a cooling bag at her during their holiday together in 2018.
On the first day of the trial, he spoke of a “nightmare” and his lawyer said there had been a “fabricated narrative of a wife-beater.”
Boateng had pushed his ex-girlfriend away and she had injured him on the lip, the court heard.
The lawyer for Boateng’s ex-partner had said: “It’s a real David versus Goliath fight.”
The proceedings against the long-serving Bayern Munich defender, who has just moved from Italian club Salernitana to Linzer ASK in Austria, have lasted years.
A Munich court originally imposed fines on Boateng totalling €1.8 million in 2021 and in 2022 a higher court increased the fines to €1.2 million.
However, the Bavarian Supreme Court overturned the judgement due to legal errors and the current trial followed.
