Un Berlin court filed this Thursday the case against German tennis player Alexander Zverev for alleged domestic violence against his ex-partneralthough he will have to pay a fine of 200,000 euros as part of an agreementor to finish 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 assault of his ex-girlfriend, the NTV television network reported this Friday.
He tennis player rejected the accusation and appealed the fine, which had been ruled without a prior trial and which consisted of 90 daily payments of 5,000 euros each. ACright about 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 peacefullyindic� ntv.
According to the indictment, which is based on the statements of the former partner of the tennis player Brenda Patea, Zverev would have pushed her against the wall and tried to suffocate her in the hallway of his rented apartment in Berlin during an argument in May 2020.
Posteriorly, The woman 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 since he is in Paris in the middle of Roland Garros (This Friday Casper Ruud plays first in the semifinals), where he expressed confidence 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 S�ddeutsche Zeitung. He 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.”
It is not the first time that 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.
