A Berlin court closed the case against German tennis player Alexander Zverev this Thursday by alleged domestic violence against his ex-partner, although he will have to pay a fine of 200.000 euros as part of an agreement to end the process.
The case against Zverev was closed on the third day of the trial in the Tiergarten District Court of First Instance, which annulled the previous fine of 450,000 euros that had been previously imposed on him for the alleged attack on his ex-girlfriend, the TV channel reported this Friday. ntv television
The tennis player rejected the accusation and appealed the fine, which had been issued without prior trial and which consisted of 90 daily payments of 5,000 euros each.
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The agreement on the payment of 200,000 euros does not constitute an admission of guilt for the purposes of Justice. Of this amount, 150,000 euros will go to the State coffers and 50,000 euros to a fundraising fund for charitable organizations.
The Prosecutor’s Office, the defense and his ex-partner as co-plaintiff accepted this way of ending the process. According to the court, both parties wanted to resolve the conflict peacefully, ntv said.
According to the indictment, which is based on the statements of the tennis player’s ex-partner Brenda Patea, Zverev would have pushed her against the wall and tried to suffocate her in the hallway of their rented apartment in Berlin during an argument in May 2020.
The woman subsequently suffered difficulty breathing and severe pain, according to the prosecutor. The pain and difficulty swallowing had lasted for several days.
The tennis player’s lawyer said on May 31, during the first hearing at the Tiergarten Court, that his client and Patea were getting along “well” in May 2020 and tried to discredit the plaintiff’s testimony by accusing her of lying “repeatedly.” to “live a ‘jet-set’ life.”
Zverev did not appear in court and is currently in Paris competing in the ‘Roland Garros’ tournament, where he was confident that he would not lose the process.
Patea spoke publicly for the first time about the alleged abuse on November 1, 2023 in an interview with the Süddeutsche Zeitung.
On October 2, 2023, a court issued a sanction order against the tennis player for “physically abusing and damaging the health of a woman during an argument in Berlin in May 2020.”
This is not the first time Zverev has been involved in accusations of domestic violence.
In November 2020, his partner at the time, Olga Sharipova, accused the German of “physically and emotionally” abusing her during the course of their relationship.
2024-06-07 09:18:36
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