The A101 is the largest courtroom in the city. Formula 1 boss Bernie Ecclestone and right-wing terrorist Beate Zschäpe were already in the dock here. Jérôme Boateng, one of the best German defenders of the past decade, will have to take a seat here on Thursday at 10 a.m. Personally, as is customary in criminal proceedings in Germany.
The 2014 world champion and long-time FC Bayern player is charged with violating his former partner. He must answer for the charge of simple willful bodily harm. The incident is said to have occurred three years ago while on vacation with the twin daughters and friends on a Caribbean island.
Independent of this process, a legal dispute has been going on for years about the right to determine the right of residence for their daughters, who still live with Boateng in Grünwald to this day. In addition, there is a partly public battle for the authority to interpret the superstar’s private life, especially on Instagram.
Because in February 2021 something changed in the public perception of the world-famous football millionaire. When Kasia Lenhardt, also a former friend of Boateng, committed suicide at the age of 25. Six days earlier, Jérôme Boateng had given a very private interview about the separation from Lenhardt in the Bild newspaper. Since then, Boateng has been silent in public.
But since then, the so-called “kasiaarmee”, countless Instagram users, have been mobilizing against Boateng online. Last week, when Boateng’s move to France became known. Thousands of comments flooded the Instagram account of his new club Olympique Lyon within a few hours, tagged with hashtags like: #boykottboateng, #keinvorbild, #justiceforkasialenhardt and #justiceforsherin.
There is now a public battle raging over the 33-year-old, fought on the Internet and on the boulevard. Ultimately, the question is: Is Jérôme Boateng a perpetrator or a victim (SZ Plus)?
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