French justice has sentenced Patrice Evra to 12 months in prison for family abandonment, to the detriment of his ex-wife, Sandra Evra, and their two children, between May 2021 and September 2023as he has announced The ParisianThe former Manchester United and Juventus player, among other teams, will also have to pay 4,000 euros to the victim for moral damages and 2,000 euros for the procedural costs of the trial.
The complainant’s lawyer claims that the arrears in child support exceed 960,000 euros. I hope that, thanks to this decision, Patrice Evra will finally understand that he is not above the law and that we cannot abandon our wife and children overnight. All the more so when they met when he was 15 and she followed him around the world to support his football career, he explained to the aforementioned French media.
Evra’s defense has filed an appealwhich states that her client provided her with an apartment, a house with a swimming pool in the south of France and two million euros to cover daily expenses and needs for her and her two children. A sum that she refuses to return, which is the reason for this trial.says his lawyer, Mr. Boursican.
The love story of Patrice and Sandra wrote its first chapters when they were both teenagers. They married in 2007 and had two children. In 2020, the couple made the decision to put an end to their romance after starting divorce proceedings, which have not yet been concluded due to the constant differences between them.
The Frenchman has become a regular in the news in the judicial field. He was sentenced to pay a fine of 1,000 euros for homophobic insults on social media after Manchester United beat PSG in a Champions League match. Paris, you are faggots. Here it is the men who speak, he wrote. He also had to pay 1,500 euros in damages to LGBT associations.
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