German court docket points penalty order in opposition to Zverev over allegation he brought about bodily hurt to a lady

BERLIN (AP) — A German court docket has issued a penalty order in opposition to tennis participant Alexander Zverev over allegations he brought about bodily hurt to a lady. Zverev has disputed the allegations and is contesting the penalty order.

The court docket in Berlin issued the order on Oct. 2, together with a requirement for Zverev to pay fines amounting to 450,000 euros ($475,000), an announcement from the courts service issued Tuesday stated. He is accused of bodily abusing and damaging the well being of a lady throughout an argument in Berlin in May 2020, the assertion added.

The assertion stated that Zverev was contesting the order and that the case would probably go to trial on the Tiergarten district court docket in Berlin after the court docket has heard farther from the events concerned.

Penalty orders are utilized in Germany as a way of resolving some legal circumstances with out going to trial, if the suspect doesn’t contest the order.

The 26-year-old Zverev was a finalist on the U.S. Open in 2020, received the lads’s singles Olympic gold medal in 2021 and is ninth within the rankings.

A legislation agency appearing for Zverev, Schertz Bergmann, issued an announcement Tuesday saying that he rejects the allegations. It alleged there have been procedural irregularities within the case in opposition to him and stated it had skilled medical proof in Zverev‘s favor.

Zverev denied the allegations in feedback at a event in July after the prosecutors’ workplace had filed the appliance for the penalty order.

In January, an investigation by the lads’s tennis tour discovered “insufficient evidence” to substantiate separate claims of home abuse by Zverev. The ATP had commissioned the investigation in October 2021 after Zverev’s former girlfriend, Olya Sharypova, accused him of abuse.

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