Madrid (AFP)
French Bayern Munich defender Lucas Hernandez, convicted of failing to comply with a removal measure after domestic violence, has until October 28 to voluntarily enter prison in Spain, unless his appeal is accepted, the official said on Monday. Spanish justice.
Summoned on Tuesday by a Madrid court to be notified of his imprisonment order, the 25-year-old presented himself "voluntarily at 11:30 am today (Monday), one day before his summons," the Court said in a statement. Superior of Justice of Madrid (TSJ).
The "ten-day period for voluntarily entering prison" therefore runs from Monday and expires "on October 28," according to the TSJ.
The player has appealed against his imprisonment, but it remains to be seen whether the body in charge of examining his appeal will respond favorably and within the time limit to avoid him imprisonment, a source told AFP. within the tribunal.
Lucas Hernandez and his partner Amelia Lorente were both convicted of domestic violence in February 2017 after a brawl.
They had been sentenced to 31 days of community service with a six-month ban on approaching within 500 meters of each other and communicating.
Reconciled, the couple got married a few months later and it was on returning from their honeymoon that the player was arrested at Madrid airport for having violated this removal measure.
Amelia Lorente had not been arrested, because this ban on contact had not yet been formally notified to her, and she was therefore not considered to be at fault.
Lucas Hernandez was finally sentenced in 2019 to six months in prison, a sentence he appealed.
This appeal was rejected last week by the justice system which considered that it was "a repeat offender".
In fact, in addition to the conviction "for an offense of injury in the context of domestic violence" and for non-compliance with the expulsion measure, Hernandez had been imposed "another conviction" for similar facts by a court of Mostoles, city of the suburbs of Madrid.
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