With the arrival of Jérôme Boateng, LASK scored an own goal. The head of the Upper Austrian Violence Protection Center is also sharply critical of the club, seeing the transfer not only as “a mockery of every single victim,” but also that football “has a violence problem.”
The fact that LASK brings the scandalous professional to Linz causes a stir, but less so from a sporting perspective. Not only is Boateng allegedly actively supporting a media smear campaign against his ex-partner Kasia Lenhardt – which ultimately drove the young mother to suicide – but the abuse of the mother of his two children earned him two lawsuits, each ending with Boateng’s conviction . Formal procedural errors now lead to a new hearing on June 14.
“Kron”: Ms. Schuh, as director of the Upper Austrian Center for Violence Protection, you deal with women affected by violence every day. Do you understand the discussions surrounding Jérôme Boateng’s signing with LASK?
Eva Schuh: I think the discussion is justified. Unfortunately, violence is always a problem in football, and LASK should actually deal with it sensitively. All sports clubs are obliged to have protection concepts in place. This means that they should already have been intensively involved in the subject. And in this case they clearly didn’t.
Source: Krone
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