Wissam Ben Yedder, former captain of AS Monaco and former French international, was sentenced on Tuesday November 12 by the Nice criminal court to two years in prison for a sexual assault in September.
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On October 15, the prosecutor requested a year in prison and 18 months of probation against Wissam player Ben Yedder, 34, second top scorer in the history of AS Monaco but without a club since. the end of his Monaco contract this summer. The player, who was not present for the deliberation on Tuesday, will also have to pay 5,000 euros in damages to the victim, as well as a fine of 5,000 euros for a traffic offense.
Now included in the register of perpetrators of sexual assault, he is also deprived of his driving license for six months and subject to an obligation of care.
His legal troubles are not over
On the evening of September 6, Wissam Ben Yedder, in a drunken state, took a 23-year-old young woman into his car. Once in the parking lot of his home near Monaco, he caressed her thigh then masturbated with one hand while trying to attract her to kiss her with the other. Initially paralyzed, the victim finally fled and called the police.
After refusing to comply, the footballer was finally arrested in the night in front of his home, with a blood alcohol level of 0.76 mg/l of exhaled air, or 1.52 g/l of blood. “ I don’t remember anything, I can’t say if I did it. It’s because of alcohol that I’m here », Declared Wissam Ben Yedder in a weak voice during the trial. After detoxification at Nice University Hospital, he joined an extensive fitness program, with the hope of returning to a club this winter.
But his legal troubles are not over. After this new sentence, following a conviction for tax fraud in Spain where he played between 2016 and 2019 for Sevilla FC, he must be tried on December 27 for psychological violence against his wife. Likewise, he is implicated in a rape case for which he was indicted in the summer of 2023.