A German judge has sentenced the husband of Princess Caroline of Monaco to pay a fine of euro200,000 ($270,000) after convicting him for a decade-old altercation in Kenya.
Hildesheim state court Judge Andreas Schlueter found Ernst August von Hannover guilty Tuesday of causing bodily harm to a Kenyan hotelier. The judge fined him the equivalent of 40 days of his salary, which the court put at euro5,000 daily.
The 55-year-old great-grandson of the last German emperor, Wilhelm II, was retried after being convicted in 2004 and fined euro445,000. His lawyers asked for an acquittal.
Ernst August was ruled to have hit the hotelier repeatedly with a metal ring he was wearing in 2000. The prince and Caroline maintained he only slapped the man.
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