French justice orders the seizure of Maradona’s World Cup Ballon d’Or

The award belonged to the late Diego Armando Maradona / Picture: EFE

The French Justice on Wednesday prohibited the sale of the 1986 World Cup Ballon d’Or gained by Diego Armando Maradona and ordered its seizure till the dispute over what occurred to the trophy is resolved.

The Parisian public sale home Aguttes was going to public sale this object on June 6, in what may have been a report sale for a sports activities object, however backed out this Sunday, saying a ‘sine die’ suspension.

In its determination, the Court docket of Attraction of Versailles supported the lawsuit of Maradona’s heirs, who allege that the article, which reappeared in 2016 following being misplaced for nearly three a long time, had been stolen from a financial institution protected in Naples in 1989.

«We’re happy with this determination that responds to our calls for and reassures my purchasers. Inside the set interval of three months, we are going to current the pertinent allegations” to resolve the dispute, Gilles Moreu, the lawyer for Maradona’s 5 heirs (Diego Armando Maradona Sinagra, Dalma and Gianinna Maradona, Jana Maradona and Diego Fernando Maradona), instructed EFE. .

Procedures

Moreu, nonetheless, mentioned he anticipated “an extended authorized battle” till it’s determined who owns the trophy, since there are two procedures, one by way of prison regulation and the opposite by way of civil regulation.

Till the enchantment offered by the Maradonas, Abdelhamid B. was thought of the authorized proprietor of the trophy in France, as a result of he purchased it in good religion (he didn’t know that it was the Ballon d’Or) and since following that acquisition three years handed with out anybody of the Maradona household to assert it.

Abdelhamid B. had purchased the trophy for 1.20 euros at a second-rate public sale in Paris and will have bought it at Aguttes for greater than 10 million euros, in response to estimates by the public sale home itself.

Measure

The seizure of the Ballon d’Or, an uncommon measure, responds to the Maradona household’s worry that it’s going to disappear once more.

The thing, within the possession of the Aguttes public sale home, will move into the fingers of a Justice officer who will seize it till the dispute over the possession of the Ball is resolved.

Paris / EFE