Jérôme Boateng has to go back to court – trial in October

In September 2021, Jérôme Boateng was fined millions. He appealed against this. The new process will start in autumn.

The assault process against former national soccer player Jérôme Boateng is entering the next round. The 33-year-old will be in court again in October, as the Munich I district court announced on Friday. The trial, scheduled for two days of negotiations, is scheduled to begin on October 20th.

In September last year, the Munich district court sentenced Boateng to a fine of 1.8 million euros. The court saw it as proven that the athlete had hit his then partner in the face on a Caribbean vacation in 2018. Boateng, who is under contract with Olympique Lyon, appealed against this verdict – as did the public prosecutor and the private prosecutor.

The judge imposed a fine of 60 daily rates of 30,000 euros each. 30,000 euros is the highest possible daily rate, but Boateng does not have a criminal record. There is only a criminal record from 90 daily rates. In the process, the public prosecutor had demanded a suspended sentence of one and a half years – and a fine of 1.5 million euros. Boateng’s then defender Kai Walden had pleaded for an acquittal.

According to the prosecution, Boateng is said to have attacked the woman while vacationing on the Turks and Caicos Islands in the Caribbean. He hit her, punched her, bit her in the head, threw her on the ground and insulted her violently. The ex-girlfriend described it similarly as a joint plaintiff. The allegations were of insult and bodily harm, the public prosecutor’s office even assumed dangerous bodily harm in their closing arguments.

The court, on the other hand, only accepted “a punch” in the face. Boateng rejected the allegations. He admitted in court that there had been an escalation in the Caribbean luxury complex with a private pool and employees. But, he emphasized, he never hit his ex-girlfriend. The two have been in an “on-off relationship” since 2007. Since 2015 they have been arguing in the family court about the right to determine the residence of their children.