Jerome Boateng, Famous German footballer found guilty of assaulting ex-girlfriend
German footballer Jerome Boateng was found guilty of attacking his ex-girlfriend and fined 1.8 million euros.
He had denied having the mother of his twin daughters Sherin S injured her breath for a moment in an argument on vacation in 2018.
In his testimony, Boateng described a different version of events.
According to German law on violence, one could have been imprisoned for up to five years.
He was accompanied by bodyguards in a dark blue suit when he and his lawyer Kai Walden arrived in court on Thursday morning.
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Before the trial, prosecutors accused Boateng of willful assault by throwing a lamp and small cool box at her ex-partner while on vacation in the Caribbean in July 2018.
The woman testified in court that Boateng He beat her. She pulled her hair, bit her head and insulted her in an argument.
Boateng admitted in her testimony that tensions had escalated during a card game and that they had an argument, but said that she became aggressive and abusive, hit him and injured her lip. She fell. He said he threw a pillow against a table and the lamp fell on the floor.
The hearing was due to take place in December but was postponed because a witness could not appear.
Boateng is a prominent name in the world of football and social media, and has had an excellent career for the club and the country.
He won 22 trophies at FC Bayern, including twice the Champions League and nine times the Bundesliga, and after his contract with Bayern expired in the summer, he made a free transfer to the French Ligue 1 team Lyon.
In February, another ex-girlfriend of Boateng, the 25-year-old model Kasia Lenhardt, committed suicide in an apartment in Berlin.
The Berlin police found his body in February when Boateng was playing for Bayern at the Club World Cup in Qatar. According to reports in Germany, they had recently ended their relationship.