A brand new trial in opposition to the previous German workforce participant is starting in Munich. In September 2023, the Bavarian Supreme Regional Court docket overturned Boateng’s conviction for insulting and bodily hurt to his former companion attributable to procedural errors, amongst different issues, and referred the case again to the Munich I Regional Court docket. The case will now be reopened there.
“Naturally tense”
“He’s naturally tense,” stated his lawyer Leonard Walischewski. Within the earlier trial earlier than the regional court docket, exculpatory proof in opposition to his shopper was not sufficiently thought of. “The proceedings had been shockingly unfair,” Walischewski stated in September final yr. “The defendant Boateng had already been definitively convicted earlier than the attraction proceedings had even begun.”
In October 2022, the Munich I Regional Court docket sentenced Boateng within the second occasion to a nice of 120 every day charges of 10,000 euros every – a complete of 1.2 million euros – for assault and insult for assaults on his ex-girlfriend throughout a Caribbean trip.
Choose made essential mistake
However the presiding decide made a vital mistake, because the Bavarian Supreme Court docket discovered final yr: After the protection filed a movement to disqualify him, he himself was concerned within the choice to reject it. A violation of the regulation that now makes a brand new trial crucial. On the time, nevertheless, the court docket not solely upheld the attraction by the previous nationwide participant, but additionally by the general public prosecutor and the co-plaintiff.
The proceedings in opposition to the long-time Bayern Munich defender, who not too long ago moved to LASK from the Italian membership US Salernitana, have been dragging on for a very long time. The Munich District Court docket had already imposed a nice on Boateng in 2021: 60 every day charges of 30,000 euros every, a complete of 1.8 million euros.
The district court docket has now scheduled six days of hearings for the brand new trial with a purpose to discover solutions to the central questions of the years-long proceedings: Did the previous soccer star assault and insult his then companion? Or did the girl make all of it up – as Boateng claims – in a dispute over the kids?
In accordance with the court docket’s schedule, the brand new verdict might be handed down on July 19. Till the authorized conclusion of the proceedings, Boateng is presumed harmless. LASK has not but commented on the case, citing the continued proceedings.
