Lucas Hernández collects the prison order: if his appeal does not prosper, he must enter before Thursday 28
The soccer player Lucas Hernández has until October 28 to enter a Spanish prison after collecting this Monday the requirement for his entry into prison for being a repeat offender in crimes related to sexist violence.
As reported by the Superior Court of Justice of Madrid (TSJM), the former Atlético de Madrid player, now in the ranks of Bayern Munich, has appeared at 11:30 a.m. this Monday voluntarily in the Court of the Penalty number 32 of Madrid, which had summoned the footballer for this Tuesday. With the advance he has avoided the planned media hype.
Thus, the ten-day period for Hernandez's entry into prison expires on Thursday, October 28 at 12:00 p.m.
At the same time, Section 26 of the Madrid Provincial Court has processed the appeal filed by the footballer's legal representation against the prison order.
Lucas Hernández was sentenced to six months in prison for breaking the restraining order on his sentimental partner, with whom he went on their honeymoon despite the fact that both had distancing measures on the other for a previous conviction for crimes of abuse in the family environment.
The soccer player requested the suspension of the prison sentence, but the Criminal Court number 32 of Madrid denied it because he has two convictions for injuries in the field of gender violence, issued by a court in Madrid and another in Móstoles .
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The events took place in February 2017, when the rojiblanco youth player, at that time an Atlético first team player, and his girlfriend, Amelia de la Osa Lorente, had a violent argument in the street. A Madrid court sentenced Hernández for a crime of injury in the field of gender violence and forced both to 31 community jobs and to be at least 500 meters away.
But in June of that same year, the couple decided to skip the sentence and go on their honeymoon to Miami. Upon their return, the Police detained them at the Adolfo Suárez-Madrid Barajas airport and Hernández went to court. Not so his partner, who had not yet been notified of the sentence for the February altercation.
In December 2019, already as a Bayern player, the Madrid Criminal Court number 35 sentenced the footballer to six months in prison for skipping the restraining order with that trip.
In the proven facts of this second conviction, it is established that Hernández, "around 9:30 a.m. on June 13, 2017, aware of the prohibition of approaching less than 500 meters from his sentimental partner issued in sentence, fully in force and with full contempt for it, he was in the company of his girlfriend at the Adolfo Suárez-Barajas airport in Madrid, coming from Miami».
As it was the second final sentence on the side, the first being for the crime of injuries due to the fight, the court understood that he could not benefit from a possible suspension of the sentence and that, therefore, Hernández must go to prison.
The court denied the commutation for work for the benefit of the Community proposed by the defense because he has not completed the 31 days of those jobs to which he was sentenced for the episode of the assault on his partner. In legal terms, the player was not recognized as a "primary offender" since he already has a criminal record.
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