Peter Sagan was fined €5,000 by a Monaco court and apologized for violating the COVID-19 curfew and injuring a police officer when he and his brother Julai were stopped last April.

Sagan provided further information to Cycling News after the incident was reported in local French and Monaco media, claiming that he violated his curfew to return to his designated address for an out-of-competition anti-doping test after putting his son to bed at his ex-wife's apartment.

The judge fined Sagan €5,000, plus €100 for violating the curfew. He must also pay €1,500 in civil damages.

"I would like to take this opportunity to sincerely apologize for the news related to the night of April 25th, which was published today. The ugly experience made me think deeply and taught me a valuable lesson. I sincerely apologize and hope that this will never happen again," Sagan said on social media.

The case was heard a week ago and the judge rendered his verdict. Sagan's conduct was deemed "exceptional" and he was fined a certain amount rather than proportionate to his salary as a professional cyclist.

The Nice-Matin newspaper suggested that Sagan "struggled like crazy" when police tried to take him to the hospital. The police officer injured his hand in the incident and needed two days to recover.

Sagan claimed that he was angry and confused but not overly aggressive toward the police officer.

"I was at my ex-wife's apartment to put my son to bed and after a couple of glasses of wine I decided to go back to my apartment even though curfew had started. I needed to go home because that's the address for the anti-doping test," Sagan told Cycling News.

"I traveled the 500 meters between apartments on an electric scooter driven by my brother Julai. I wasn't driving and I wasn't in a car, so I wasn't tested for alcohol. But the police took me to the hospital and tried to drug test me. So I got angry and pushed the police officer away. I am very sorry for what happened."

Sagan's lawyer justified his actions by saying that he feared he would be "forced to be vaccinated."

However, Sagan made it clear that he was not opposed to the COVID-19 vaccination. He tested positive for COVID-19 at a pre-season training camp in Gran Canaria, Spain, in early February 2021.

He then told Cyclingnews that he received follow-up vaccinations in the summer and has now passed COVID-19 completely.