The 34-year-old footballer was imprisoned for a fortnight in February following the conviction at first instance by the Bobigny court, in the Paris region, for hitting a plainclothes police officer during an altercation in an airport parking lot. from Roissy Charles-de-Gaulle. He was then released under judicial supervision by the Paris Court of Appeal pending his appeal hearing, which was held in mid-April.
No sentence adjustment was pronounced with the judgment on Monday and the sportsman will have to go before a sentence enforcement judge, said a source familiar with the matter. On June 28, 2017, the Malian international born in France and a policeman from the Border Police (PAF) – who was not on duty – found themselves in an airport parking lot: a fishtail on the he nearby highway, for which they blamed themselves, had set fire to the powder. In the altercation, Yatabaré, then midfielder of Werder Bremen (Germany), had hit the policeman in the face, touching his optic nerve and causing him 21 days of total incapacity for work (ITT).