Dutch court sentences Spartak Moscow player Promes to 18 months for assault

[June 19, 2023]  AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -A Dutch court has sentenced Spartak Moscow striker Quincy Promes in absentia to 18 months in jail for assault, in connection with a fight in 2020 in which he stabbed a cousin in the knee.
 
Dutch broadcaster RTL reported Promes will appeal, citing his lawyer. 

Soccer Football - Europa League - Group C - Napoli v Spartak Moscow - Stadio Diego Armando Maradona, Naples, Italy - September 30, 2021 Spartak Moscow's Quincy Promes celebrates after the match REUTERS/Ciro De Luca/File Photo

Promes, 31, is currently living in Moscow and it is not certain he will return to the Netherlands. Last month prosecutors charged him additionally with drug trafficking.

Promes previously played with Ajax and the Dutch national football team.

(Reporting by Toby Sterling; Editing by Toby Chopra)

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