The Swiss forward of AS Monaco Breel Embolo, one of the great stars of the Swiss national team, must appear in June before the Basel criminal court for an alleged crime of threats, related to a fight in which he was involved in 2018, the Blick newspaper reported today.
According to the Swiss German-language newspaper, Embolo, who has pleaded not guilty to these charges, is accused of threatening to beat up a person with whom he had a violent argument, an offense punishable under Swiss law by fines or up to three years. from prison.
The case, says Blick, has the aggravating circumstance that at the time the events were tried (the early morning of May 27, 2018) Embolo was on probation since a year earlier he had been fined for violating the rules of circulation, when driving without a license.
Witnesses to the altercation indicate that Embolo, who was with two other people, did not physically attack the group with which the three confronted, but one of their companions did, charged with minor bodily harm and possession of a quantity of marijuana. not permitted by local law.
The 26-year-old player, of Cameroonian origins, began his career at Basel, and after six seasons in the German Bundesliga (Schalke 04 and Borussia Monchengladbach) he was signed last summer by Monaco, with whom he has scored 12 goals despite still not having had the full confidence of coach Philippe Clement.
At the World Cup in Qatar, he became the first player in the tournament’s history to score a goal (not an own goal) against his country of birth (Cameroon), and chose not to celebrate.
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