Prison sentence confirmed on appeal for Sambou Yatabaré, the midfielder of Sochaux

Same pain. The Paris Court of Appeal confirmed on Monday the sentencing of the Malian international from Sochaux (Ligue 2) Sambou Yatabaré to one year in prison for violence committed in 2017. The 34-year-old footballer had been imprisoned for a fortnight in February following the judgment at first instance pronounced by the court of Bobigny, in the Paris region.

He had hit a plainclothes police officer during an altercation in a parking lot at Roissy Charles-de-Gaulle airport. He was then released under judicial supervision by the Paris Court of Appeal pending his appeal hearing, which was held in mid-April.

Meet in front of the JAP

No sentence adjustment was pronounced with the judgment on Monday and the athlete will have to go before a sentence enforcement judge (JAP), said a source familiar with the matter.

On June 28, 2017, the Malian international born in Beauvais (Oise) and a police officer from the Border Police (PAF) – who was not on duty – found themselves in an airport car park: a queue of fish on the nearby highway, for which they blamed themselves, had ignited the powder.

In the altercation, Yatabaré, then midfielder of Werder Bremen (Germany), had hit the policeman in the face, touching his optic nerve and causing him 21 days of total incapacity for work (ITT).

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