2023-07-06 12:58:00
The former striker of the France team Tony Vairelles (8 selections), passed by the clubs of Lyon, Nancy, Rennes, Lens or even Gueugnon during his career as a professional footballer (from 1991 to 2011)was sentenced Thursday to 18 months in prison by the Nancy Court of Appeal for violence at the exit of a nightclub in the agglomeration of Nancy, in 2011.
The ex-player, who scored his only goal in the blue jersey in 1999 in a friendly against Croatia, was on trial along with three of his brothers for shooting nightclub security guards in Essay-les-Nancy (Meurthe-et-Moselle) in October 2011. He was sentenced to 36 months in prison, including 18 months suspended, a sentence reduced by half compared to the first instance where he had been sentenced to three years.
Nightclub security guards also sentenced
His brother Fabrice was sentenced to the same sentence, when his two younger brothers Giovan and Jimmy were sentenced to 18 months in prison, including 12 months suspended. They too will be able to arrange the firm part of their sentence. Incarcerated for five months, between 2011 and 2012 at the start of the investigation, Tony Vairelles has always claimed his innocence as well as that of his brothers.
According to their version, the two young brothers had been expelled from the nightclub, abused by three security guards. They then returned to the scene with their two eldest, Tony and Fabrice. Shots were fired by a “mysterious shooter” according to the version of the family, whose prosecutor had noted the “clan operation”. The guards claimed for their part to have identified Tony Vairelles as the shooter.
The three security guards were sentenced: one to six months suspended and two to eight months suspended for the violence against the two youngest Vairelles brothers.
In 2022, Tony Vairelles returned to this affair in an autobiographical book, Balls in the center.
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