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Lucas Hernandez avoids the prison box – Release

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Spanish justice on Wednesday accepted the appeal of the French international Bayern Munich, sentenced in Spain to six months in prison for non-compliance with a removal measure after domestic violence.

Barely. Prosecuted for non-compliance with a removal measure after domestic violence, Lucas Hernandez was sentenced to six months in prison. This Wednesday, the Spanish justice delivered its verdict and accepted his appeal: the 25-year-old Bayern Munich player will ultimately not go behind bars.

“We consider that the appeal must be accepted and that the execution of the sentence of deprivation of liberty imposed on Lucas François Bernard Hernandez must be suspended”, indicated in its decision the Superior Court of Justice of Madrid, on the eve of the deadline set by the justice for the voluntary entry into prison of the player. This suspension of sentence, however, remains conditional on the player, who will have to pay a fine of 96,000 euros, “Do not commit a new offense” for a period of four years, the court said.

It all goes back to February 3, 2017. The one who was not yet world champion with the Blues, then aged 21, and his companion, Amelia Lorente, had come to blows, exchanging blows in front of their home at dawn. from Madrid. She hit and scratched him before scratching his car with a key, while the player hit him on the ribs, back, jaw and lips, according to the judgment consulted by AFP.

They had both been sentenced at the end of February 2017 to the same sentence by a court in Madrid for “domestic violence” : 31 days of community service accompanied by a six-month ban on approaching within 500 meters of each other and from communicating.

The problem ? Four months later, in June 2017, when they both returned from their honeymoon in the United States, where they had married, the player was arrested at Madrid airport for not having respected this measure. distance. Incongruously: his wife, with whom he had since had a child born in 2018, had not been arrested, because this measure had not yet been formally notified to him.

Placed in custody for a few hours, the footballer, who was playing at Atlético Madrid at the time, was finally sentenced, in 2019, to six months in prison. He appealed, but in mid-October, the courts had initially refused to adjust his sentence, as is generally the case in Spain for people sentenced to less than two years in prison and with a clean criminal record.

The court in charge of the case had indeed emphasized that the footballer was a “recidivist”due to his 2017 conviction for “Injuries in the context of domestic violence” , of that of 2019 for non-compliance with the expulsion measure, but also of a “Other conviction”for “domestic violence”, pronounced by a court of Móstoles, city of the suburbs of Madrid, of which the details and the date were not communicated.

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