Revision against conviction: Boateng process enters the third round

Last week, the district court in Munich I found soccer world champion Jérôme Boateng guilty in the second instance.

Revision against conviction: Boateng process enters the third round

Last week, the district court in Munich I found soccer world champion Jérôme Boateng guilty in the second instance. He is said to have attacked his ex-girlfriend and paid a whopping 1.2 million euros for it. The 34-year-old does not want to accept the verdict and is appealing.

Jérôme Boateng does not want to accept his second conviction for assault either. One of his defense attorneys appealed the verdict, as the Munich I Regional Court said at the request of the German Press Agency. The Bavarian Supreme Court must now decide whether there may have been legal errors in the judgment against Boateng.

The district court in Munich I found the 2014 soccer world champion guilty of attacks on his ex-girlfriend during a vacation in the Caribbean in 2018. It imposed a fine of 120 daily rates of 10,000 euros each - a total of 1.2 million euros. This would mean that Boateng would have a criminal record, unlike the first-instance judgement.

Last year, the district court imposed a higher fine overall, but the number of daily rates was only half as high - specifically: 60 daily rates of 30,000 euros each - a total of 1.8 million euros. If more than 90 daily rates are convicted, they are considered to have had a criminal record.

"For us, the facts are more than proven," judge Andreas Forstner said in the verdict. Boateng's defenders, on the other hand, had requested an acquittal for the 34-year-old football professional. They assumed that his ex-girlfriend had invented and "instrumentalized" the allegations "in the fight for the children" and complained that their client had been prejudiced. During the course of the proceedings, they also filed a motion for bias against Judge Forstner.

The public prosecutor had demanded a suspended sentence of one and a half years and an additional fine of 1.5 million euros. It was initially unclear whether the prosecution also wanted to appeal. The deadline should expire at midnight.