This Tuesday Wissam Ben Yedder, former player of Monaco, Sevilla and the French national teamamong other clubs, currently without a team and with alcohol problems, will be tried in Nice for alleged sexual assault, obstructing the police and being drunk.
Ben Yedder34 years old, is the second leading scorer in the history of Monaco and international for France on 19 occasions (between 2019 and 2022). According to the AFP agency, Ben Yedder is accused that, on September 6, during one of his many drunken nights, he asked a woman to get into his car, putting his hand on her thigh, who tried to hug her. and masturbating in front of him.
The girl filed a complaint and Ben Yedderstill behind the wheel of his car, was detained overnight in Cap d’Ail, a town on the border of Monaco.
The footballer’s lawyers, Hasna Louzé and Marie Roumiantseva, They ensure that he is present at the hearing and that he “intends to take responsibility for his actions, Ben Yedder “He is sorry for causing this situation and he is sincerely sorry for the complainant,” they added.
Subject to strict judicial control (the prosecution requested preventive detention), the Franco-Tunisian player risks being sentenced to up to 10 years in prison. besides Ben Yedder On December 27, he will be tried for psychological violence against his wife, from whom he is in the process of divorcing; and another young woman accused him of rape during another night of alcohol in the summer of 2023, the facts are still under investigation. But in these two cases he denied the accusations.
In 2023 Ben Yedder He was sentenced in Seville to six months in prison for tax fraud, and is also facing trial against his former agent, Meïssa Ndiaye.
Born in Sarcelles, in the Paris region, Wissam Ben Yedder He comes from futsal, a discipline to which he owes his technical ease and to which he is also international. He made his professional football debut at Toulouse before signing for Sevilla.
He got to Monaco in 2019 and scored 118 goals in 201 games for the Principality club, where he was captain for a long time. But discussions about a renewal quickly broke down and the player left AS Monaco almost secretly at the end of the season.
Source: La Verdad
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