Trouble at FC Bayern: Defender Benjamin Pavard (26) has to go to court next week because he was driving while drunk. Since he had 1.4 per mille in his blood, there is a legal offense. Pavard is now threatened with a fine of millions.
Munich – Again court trouble for FC Bayern – and again it’s about traffic offenses. After the Bayern bosses Oliver Kahn and Hasan Salihamdizic lost their driver’s license or had to tremble about it in the past few weeks, it is now affecting a player. Defense warrior Benjamin Pavard (26) has an unpleasant appointment at the Munich district court on Wednesday: There he has to answer for a drunk driving last summer.
Police pulled Bayern star Benjamin Pavard out of traffic drunk – millions of fines threatened
The Frenchman was in the car on August 4, 2022 with a blood alcohol level of 1.4 – in the middle of preparing for the new Bundesliga season, which began nine days later. At 2.36 a.m. the police stopped him on Sonnenstrasse. After the traffic check, Pavard had to go to the police station, where a blood test at 3:18 a.m. showed the high alcohol level.
“I made a mistake that I’ve admitted. Nobody is perfect, but I’ve learned from it,” Pavard admitted ruefully. Sports director Hasan Salihamidizic said the incident was “not worth mentioning”. The Munich I public prosecutor’s office saw things differently: because anyone who drives a car with a blood alcohol content of more than 1.1 is legally considered to be “absolutely unfit to drive” – and commits a criminal offence.
FC Bayern: Benjamin Pavard lost his driver’s license because he was drunk – now he has to go to court
Pavard received a penalty order from the district court: He now faces a fine of two months’ salary and a whole year’s driver’s license suspension. Only because the 2018 world champion lodged an objection to this will there be a public criminal trial on Wednesday. FC Bayern will hardly be happy about this unrest: On Saturday, the record champions will play at home against FC Augsburg.
Benjamin Pavard could then be back in the starting XI. His driver’s license had already been confiscated after the drunk driving. The defender is said to have received a high five-digit fine from FC Bayern. Legally, however, he was still lucky: because from 1.6 per mille you can only get your driver’s license back if you pass the “Depperltest” (MPU).
