Former Padres player Nicki Bille Nielsen risking jail – VG

This week must Nicki Bille Nielsen (27) meet in court, charged with, among other things to have bitten a policeman’s arm.

The event Nielsen is accused of took place on April 18 last year, while the Dane was still Rosenborg player.

At half past twelve o’clock at night the police came over football player, who was in full swing by kicking the parking machines and bicycles in the center of Copenhagen. They tried to leave with the Nielsen police car, but he was not voluntary.

Police used pepper spray against therefore to him, and he was placed in the backseat of the car. There, he will have cheated, and then dried facial disc on the front seat.

One of the policemen who were involved in the arrest of Nielsen tried on one occasion to nudge Dane away. It resulted in Nielsen bit him in the arm, and ensured that in the police report described as a “superficial bite mark.”

Charged three factors

Thursday must Nielsen appear in court and testify on the circumstances. According Ekstra Bladet is indictment divided into three points:

** He is accused of having expelled noisy and violent behavior when he kicked on bicycles and parking machines. This offense shall normally punishable by fines.

DRO TO FRANCE: Nielsen Evian-suit.

Photo: Jean-pierre Clatot , AFP

** He is accused of not following the police voluntarily, but rather oppose arrest in Copenhagen. He allegedly tense body and bristled against when police would put handcuffs on him. The penalty is fines and up to six months in jail.

** The most serious charges point is intimidation and violence against a policeman. Here is the maximum sentence according to Ekstra Bladet fines and imprisonment for up to eight years – without a high penalty is likely at all.

Ekstra Bladet has been in contact with Nielsen lawyer, but he does not want to speak before the trial begins in Copenhagen on Thursday.

No French success

Nielsen got through his time in Rosenborg outwith sporting attention. He was implicated in trouble on several occasions and was the club eventually sent on a anger management courses.

Last summer came the French club Evian on the pitch with the desire to bring Nielsen and Rosenborg chose to let the Dane go.

This season has not been some upswing for Nielsen, who has only scored one goal in 19 games. He struggles with playing in the team who are fighting a battle for survival in French elite football.