The trial for the kidnapping and blackmail of the 2018 world champion Paul Pogba It will be held at the Paris Correctional Court between November 26 and December 3, with six accused in the dock, including a brother of the footballer. Mathiass, reported ‘L’Équipe’ this Thursday.
The date of the process occurs a few weeks after the French international of Juventus Turin His doping sanction was reduced from four years to 18 months, so he can return to the playing fields in March 2025.
Mathias Pogbaone of Paul’s brothers, is among the accused along with five other young friends of the same and will be tried for two charges, attempted blackmail and criminal conspiracy, but not for kidnapping at gunpoint, the most serious of them .
With Mathias, 34 years old, Roushdane K., Adama C., Boubacar C., Mamadou M. and Mohamed Machikour K., all of them from the Pogba circle of friends from the town of Roissy-en-Brie, will sit on the bench of the Paris Correctional Court and are suspected of extortion and kidnapped the footballer for a few hours.
On the night of March 19 to 20, 2022, during a training camp for the French national team, Paul visited these friends, who took him to an apartment in Lagny-sur-Marne (outside Paris).
There, where it is not Mathiasbut other defendants did, some hooded men armed with assault rifles burst in, demanding 13 million euros from the player in exchange for protection services.
They held the midfielder for several hours, with Pogba admitting he was “terrified.”
During the police investigation, the accused defended themselves by saying that they were acting under pressure from other groups.
After this event, Paul Pogbapanicked, tried to transfer 11 million, but his bank refused it due to security measures.
Subsequently, and allegedly assisted by Mathias, the other defendants pressured and harassed the French international and his entourage for months (his mother Yeo Moriba and his representative, the Brazilian Rafaela Pimenta).
In August 2022 and with the investigation underway for several weeks, Paul’s brother decided to make this matter public with a strange video, in which he spoke about the “shocking revelations” about the Juve midfielder and about in Kylian Mbappé.
Mathias He said his brother had hired a witch doctor to look down on the PSG striker and teammate, something the former Manchester United footballer vehemently denied.
Source: La Verdad
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