The front of AS Monaco, Breel Emboloone of the great stars of the Swiss national team, was sentenced today by a Basel court to a fine of 135,000 Swiss francs (137,000 euros) for the crime of threats made during a fight in 2018.
The sentence is suspended, so Plunger He will only pay it if he reoffends, although the judges also ruled that he pay legal costs and make restitution to the victims.
A crime punishable by up to three years in prison
Plungerwho pleaded not guilty, was accused of threatening to strike someone with whom he had a violent argument, an offense for which Swiss law can carry fines or up to three years in prison.
At the time when the events in question took place -in the early morning of May 27, 2018 in Basel- Plunger He was also on a probationary period since a year before he was fined for violating traffic regulations by driving without a license. The soccer player was with two friends at the time of the dispute, and one of them, accused of assault, was sentenced to ten months in prison and a fine of 1,000 francs (1,017 euros), a sentence that was also suspended in his case.
Plunger26 years old and of Cameroonian origin, his career began in baseland after six seasons in the Bundesliga- Schalke 04 and Borussia Monchengladbach- he was signed last summer by Monaco. At the last World Cup in Qatar, he became the first player in the history of the tournament to score a goal -not an own goal- against his country of birth… And he chose not to celebrate it.
Source: La Verdad
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