元オランダ代表ＦＷプロメス、親戚刺した罪で禁錮刑

【ハーグＡＦＰ＝時事】オランダの裁判所は１９日、サッカー元同国代表ＦＷのクインシー・プロメス（３１）に対し、家族の集まりで身内を刺した罪で禁錮１８月を言い渡した。（写真はロシア１部リーグ、スパルタク・モスクワに所属するオランダ代表ＦＷクインシー・プロメス）
　スパルタク・モスクワ所属のプロメスは現在ロシアで生活しているため、判決の言い渡しには出席しなかった。弁護人は、プロメスが控訴する意向だとしている。
　裁判では、プロメスが２０２０年に行われた家族の誕生日会で、盗まれたネックレスをめぐって親戚の一人と揉め、脚を刺したことが分かった。
　検察側は当初、殺人未遂の罪でプロメスを訴追していたが、その後取り下げていた。
　プロメスはオランダ代表で通算５０試合に出場し、７ゴールを記録。２０２１年の欧州選手権にも出場したが、その後は代表に選ばれていない。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2023/06/20-17:05）

A Dutch court sentenced former Netherlands international footballer Quincy Promes to 18 months in jail Monday for stabbing his cousin at a family party.
The Spartak Moscow forward, 31, who pleaded not guilty, was not in court in Amsterdam for the sentencing as he currently lives in Russia.
His lawyer said the disappointed Promes would appeal.
Promes stabbed his cousin in the leg at the end of a family birthday party in 2020 in a row over a stolen necklace, the court found.
Anyone convicted of the offence would normally get a sentence of at least a year but Promes got a heavier jail term because of his public profile, it said.
The court took into account that the suspect is a professional football player and well-known Dutchman, and therefore has an exemplary function, the court said in a statement.
The court also blames the suspect for not taking any responsibility for his act.
Prosecutors, who had demanded a two-year sentence, last year dropped a charge of attempted murder against Promes.
Our client has asked us to appeal, his lawyer Robert Malewicz was quoted as saying by Dutch news agency ANP.
We briefly discussed the verdict. He reacted disappointed. We will study the verdict carefully, but he has already asked us to appeal.
The appeal would focus on phone taps, Malewicz said.
The stabbing investigation was triggered by intercepted phone calls from a separate probe into a drug-smuggling case involving Promes.
Promes was charged in May with importing several hundred kilos of cocaine through the Belgian port of Antwerp in 2020.
Prosecutors said it was premature to seek his extradition.
Promes has been capped 50 times, scoring seven goals, and was part of the national team at the Euro 2020 championships, played in 2021 due to Covid, but has not worn the orange jersey since.
He joined Amsterdam's Ajax in 2019 from Sevilla in a 15 million-euro ($16.4 million) transfer, before going back to Spartak in 2021, where he was named Russia's footballer of the year in 2017 during a previous spell.