Olympique Lyonnais defender Jerome Boateng on Thursday has refused the accusations of violence brought against him by the mother of his two children in court in Munich.
Boateng faced a private tragedy when his last girlfriend Kasia Lenhardt, whom he had just left a few days earlier, was found dead in a Berlin apartment.
The 33-year-old left Bayern Munich earlier this year, ending a 10-year association with the Bundesliga club.
Prosecutors have accused the former Bayern Munich defender and 2014 World Cup winner of wilful bodily harm.
“First threw a lantern at the victim, he missed it. He cursed at her and threw an insulated box at her which hit her in the upper right part of her body, particularly her arm, which injured her,” Anne Leiding said.
Boateng, who faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison, responded for nearly two hours to these accusations, and developed his own version of the incident, which occurred during a vacation in the Caribbean in July 2018, just after the pitiful elimination of Germany in the first round of the World Cup in Russia.
The centre back made the headlines in early September when he signed for two years with Lyon after a decade crowned with multiple titles at Bayern Munich.
Boateng at the end of his contract with Munich, where he won two Champions Leagues and nine German league titles.
He was dismissed by former Germany coach Joachim Low in early 2019. In his first list last week, new coach Hansi Flick did not call on him.
But with the approach of the trial, the spotlight has once again turned to his private life, which provokes a lot of exchanges and comments on social networks, and makes the cabbage of the press.
