OL defender Jérôme Boateng sentenced for beating his ex-girlfriend

Jérôme Boateng will not go through the prison box, but he will have to open his wallet. German justice sentenced the German defender of Olympique Lyonnais on Wednesday evening to a fine of 1.2 million euros for having assaulted his ex-partner and mother of his two children in 2018. The funds must benefit, in particular, associations supporting women who are victims of violence.

The Munich court, which was hearing the case on appeal, considered 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 player denies the charges

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. First he 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 to confirm the violence. And on this occasion she complained about the player’s security service, which she accused of having filmed him in the court in an attempt to intimidate him. What the defender’s lawyers denied.