The Reims court on Tuesday sentenced a former Stade de Reims player to three years’ imprisonment, two of which were suspended, for violence committed in December 2016 on a high school student who had witnessed a quarrel between him and his companion.
Antoine Conte wore the Stade de Reims jersey 52 times between 2013 and 2017, and has had several selections for the French youth team, including six appearances with the Espoirs. He is now playing in Beitar Jerusalem, Israel.
Two hits of a baseball bat
The 22-year-old at the time of the facts, he admitted to having struck two violent hits with a baseball bat on the hip and the skull of Liam Jean, a high school student who was 19 years old at the time. The latter had approached the footballer’s garden with three friends because they ” had heard cries of distress and calls for help from a woman “. « It was necessary to intervene “, he assured at the bar.
Antoine Conte, after insulting these young people by yelling at them to leave, returned to his home then came out armed with a bat to violently hit the high school student twice. ” I had to stop a career as a musician ”, explained with sadness the victim to the judges of Reims.
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