The 800m world champion Pierre-Ambroise Bosse was sentenced on Tuesday to a fine of 1,000 euros for a violent brawl, a night in August 2017 in the Gironde, during which he was seriously wounded in the face, causing a end of season premature.
The other protagonist of the brawl, a former amateur rugby player whose criminal court in Bordeaux has retained "fierce violence" on the athlete, including a punch and kicks in the face, was sentenced to eight months in prison suspended.
The two men convicted
The two men, one, Bosse, 27 years old, the other 26 years old, were found guilty: Bosse, absent deliberate, of "violence with use or threat of a weapon, in this case a bottle of beer ", which did not lead to ITT (total incapacity for work). His opponent, who was present Tuesday, of "drunken violence resulting in an ITT 18 days".
The hearing, on April 30, had seen the two accused return the responsibility for the outbreak of the altercation night, August 30 in the parking lot of the casino Gujan-Mestras, near Arcachon, where Pierre-Ambroise Bosse kept ties. He had just celebrated with his friends his gold medal at the London Worlds, won three weeks earlier.