Six years in prison for father who shot his daughter boxer

The Berlin Regional Court sentenced to six years in prison to the adoptive father of the German professional boxer Rola El-Halabi, for shooting his daughter four times before a global cause serious injury. The court considered proven that the man, El-Halabi exrepresentante left his daughter seriously injured after coming into the dressing room and shoot him in hands and legs on 1 April in Berlin.

Man, 44, admitted the facts but denied pointing at the time of shooting. The boxer, originally from Lebanon and moved with his family to Germany shortly after birth, said during the trial hate his stepfather. According to the indictment, which called for a sentence of six years and ten months, the aim of the father was injure her daughter not being allowed to compete again.

The prosecution argues that the new partner of the athlete, a man still married, then did not like the father. In addition, the aggressor, a native of Kuwait, had been deeply reviled by her daughter's decision to dispense with him as a representative, the prosecutor said Ralph Krispel. It is not yet clear whether the athlete, 26 years and competes in the lightweight category, you can return the ring. El-Halabi was bedridden for weeks in a wheelchair after undergoing several operations.