On Thursday, the Basel criminal court sentenced national soccer player Breel Embolo to a conditional fine of 45 daily rates of CHF 3,000 for making multiple threats.
The background is a dispute on the open street in May 2018.
Embolo was out with friends in Basel and got into an argument with a group at five in the morning. He was 21 at the time and was already playing for Schalke 04 in Germany.
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Breel Donald Embolo was born on February 14, 1997 in Yaounde, Cameroon. His family moved to Basel, where he grew up and was naturalized at the end of 2014. As a talented dual citizen who was being courted, he decided to join the Swiss national team.
After Nordstern and Old Boys Basel, he started his football career at FCB in 2010. In 2016 he moved abroad to Schalke 04 in Germany. The striker has been playing for AS Monaco in France since last year.
Two men from that group now faced him in court as plaintiffs. One of them suffered a broken nose. Embolo was accused of making multiple threats, including telling one man he would finish him and another man saying he would have him beaten.
The public prosecutor had demanded a conditional fine of 60 daily rates of CHF 3,000 each, the highest permissible rate, with a probationary period of three years. His defense attorney had pleaded for acquittal, also because of the lengthy proceedings.
Legend:
Before the trial began on Wednesday morning, Breel Embolo relaxed in front of the door of the Basel-Stadt criminal court.
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