Real Sociedad midfielder David Silva has been sentenced to pay a fine of 1,080 euros ($1,065) for hitting a woman during "a brawl"according to the sentence to which AFP has had access this Thursday.
The Spanish international player has been sentenced for "misdemeanor bodily injury" for grabbing and throwing a womanwhich caused various injuries, although no trial was held since the parties reached a consent agreement.
According to the court ruling, Silva "with the intention of undermining the physical integrity of L., He grabbed her arm hard to pull her away, causing her to fall to the ground and suffer. post-traumatic cervicalgia, contusion in the left elbow, laceration in the second finger of the left hand, lacerations in both knees and lacerations in both legs".
This action occurred "in a brawl between several people" last June 19 during the celebration of the carnivals of Maspalomas in the Campo Internacional de San Bartolomé de Tirajana, on the island of Gran Canaria, adds the document.
Two other people who were with the footballer have also been convicted of these events.
One of them, who, according to the newspaper Tiempo de Canarias, is the brother of David Silva, has been fined for two minor crimes of injury, while the third has been sentenced to eight months in prison for a crime of injury and a fine for another crime of threats.