Will Quincy Promes ever wear the Dutch national team jersey again? No longer appeared with the Oranje since Euro 2021, the Spartak Moscow winger is not helped in this sense by his extra-sporting affairs. The Dutch public prosecutor thus requested this Friday two years in prison against the 31-year-old footballer, tried in the Netherlands for having stabbed a cousin.
The international with 50 selections was initially prosecuted for attempted homicide but on the basis of several testimonies, the prosecution concluded that there was no evidence to establish that his aim was to kill the victim. He is on trial for seriously injuring one of his cousins in the knee with a knife during a fight after a family reunion in Abcoude, near Amsterdam, in July 2020.
A great season in the Russian league
“Based on the police investigation, the prosecution suspects the man of aggravated assault,” the prosecution said in a statement after the trial opened on Friday, in the absence of the player who remained in Russia. “The motive for the attack is not entirely clear, but it could be the theft of jewelry from an aunt,” added the prosecution.
This former great hope of Dutch football played for Ajax at the material time. He returned at the start of 2021 to Spartak Moscow, where he had already played for four seasons from 2014 to 2018. Despite his legal problems, Quincy Promes is having a good season in the Russian league, with 14 goals and 6 assists in 16 games played.