This case followed a violent argument that occurred in October 2022 against the backdrop of a difficult separation. The 28-year-old and his ex-partner, Stacy G., 32, accused each other at the time. The Rennais said he had been kicked in the ankle, his ex-girlfriend, two blows to the back of the head, before withdrawing their complaint a few months later. Both wishing “a peaceful situation” for the sake of their children, a six-year-old boy and a one-year-old girl.
“We can think that if he was not a professional footballer, there would not have been these prosecutions,” lamented Stacy G.’s lawyer, Me Sammy Jeanbart, during the hearing on September 22.
Despite the withdrawal of the complaint, the Rennes public prosecutor’s office decided to maintain the procedure against the two young people, a couple from 2015 to June 2022, for this reciprocal violence committed in front of their son whom the player was picking up for the weekend.
The quarrel had been made worse by the presence of the footballer’s new partner, for whom he had left Stacy G. when she was seven months pregnant.
The two women had exchanged acidic words and Baptiste Santamaria ended up insulting Stacy G., triggering the argument.
Apparently minimal violence, if we are to believe the medical findings made after the altercation: one day of ITT each and a “prescription for paracetamol”, without being able to demonstrate any injuries.
Stacy G. denied having struck Baptiste Santamaria, who for his part admitted having “pushed” the young woman away, according to him because he was afraid for his ankle after a major operation, but denied having struck blows. with the fist.
For the public prosecutor, deputy prosecutor Hubert Lesaffre himself noted the relatively minor nature of the event. “They are not violent by nature, they are not a dysfunctional couple, we are talking about a scene at a given moment, in a context of separation,” he said.