Lyon center back Jerome Boateng was ordered to pay a €1.8 million ($2.1 million) fine after being found guilty of domestic violence against a former partner on Thursday.
The Associated Press reported Boateng avoided a suspended prison sentence of 1.5 years, which was sought by prosecutors in Germany after he was charged with willful bodily harm and verbal abuse of former partner Sherin Senler in July 2018.
Senler testified in Munich District Court that Boateng punched her in the kidney, tore her hair, bit her head and pressed his thumb in her eye during an argument while they were on vacation together in the Turks and Caicos Islands.