Nico Schultz is accused of kicking his pregnant ex-girlfriend in the stomach.
The German national team player now faces a ten-year prison sentence.
He grabbed her from behind and threw her on the floor. stated in the report.
Borussia Dortmund Water BundesligaPremiere against Bayer Leverkusen on Saturday night, but 29-year-old left-back Nico Schulz was not in the squad.
At the same time, there were also reports in the German media that Schultz is now under a police investigation. An ex-girlfriend reported Schulz for domestic violence.
“Investigations are underway due to a criminal complaint filed by an ex-girlfriend,” the woman’s lawyer, Sonia Frodermann, tells Bild newspaper.
Serious accusations
The report relates to several cases of domestic violence in 2020, a time when Schulz played regularly for the German national team.
Schulz is accused, among other things, of kicking his girlfriend in the stomach in August 2020, two weeks before the couple’s daughter was due to be born.
He grabbed her from behind and then threw her on the ground. This was followed by other kicks in the direction of the stomach.As stated in the 76-page report written by the attorney, among other things.
“shocking”
Schulz faces up to ten years in prison if convicted of all the crimes he is now charged with. Borussia Dortmund commented on the issue on their website on Sunday.
“Borussia Dortmund immediately had a conversation with the player and his advisor. The player denies the allegations against him”writes the club and then continues:
“The allegations that have been made, which Borussia Dortmund did not know before the media published them, have a very high impact and are shocking to the BVB.”
After breaking up with his ex-girlfriend, Nico Schulz is now with ex-girlfriend Brad Pitt Nicole Potoralsky. The German model and Schultz announced that they were married in March of this year.
