One year of prison had been required against the winner of the League of Nations – with the Blues, Sunday, against Spain – for non-respect of an order of removal from his companion. The former defender of Atlético Madrid has already appealed the decision and could avoid the prison if his appeal is accepted.
Le Monde with AFP
The Spanish justice ordered the incarceration of the international international defender of Bayern Munich Lucas Hernandez so as not to have respected a remote measure imposed after a rix with his companion, announced the higher court of Justice of Madrid .
Lucas Hernandez, 2018 World Champion and Winner of the League of Nations with the Blues Sunday against Spain (2-1), will have to appear on October 19th in a court of Madrid so that the incarceration order It is notified to him, announced this court in a statement.
After this hearing, he will have ten days to enter “voluntarily” in prison. But, according to the Tribunal, the former defender of the Atlético Madrid has already appealed the decision and could avoid the prison if his appeal was accepted. In Spain, prison sentences less than two years are generally not applied unless it is a recurrence, in which case the incarceration is required even if the sentence is very short.
First condemnation in 2017
The first condemnation of Lucas Hernandez in this case goes back to February 2017. The defender had then been sentenced, as his companion, to thirty-one days of works of general interest and to a measure of remoteness and Prohibition of contacting for six months for mutual domestic violence.
Barely four months later, the player and his companion had been arrested at Madrid-Barajas airport while returning from vacation. The footballer had been selected a few hours in police custody by law enforcement so as not to respected the remote measure imposed in 2017, before being released.
judged for non-compliance with the removal measure, he had been sentenced in 2019 to six months in prison. On the other hand, his companion had not been arrested at the airport because the removal measure had not yet been officially notified at that time. It was not wrong.