Published on : 22/09/2022 – 02:21
French football international Aminata Diallo was released and placed under judicial supervision on Wednesday as part of the investigation into the attack on her former teammate at PSG, Kheira Hamraoui. The Versailles prosecutor’s office immediately appealed.
After five days of pre-trial detentionshe comes out of prison: the footballer Aminata Dialloindicted for “aggravated violence” and “criminal association” in the investigation into the attack on her ex-teammate at Paris SG Kheira Hamraoui, was released and placed on Wednesday, September 21 under judicial control.
A decision, however, immediately challenged by the Versailles prosecutor’s office, who appealed. “The case will be discussed by the investigating chamber within two months,” he told AFP.
The international (7 caps for the France team), without a club since the contract which linked her to PSG expired in June 2022, had to pay a deposit of 30,000 euros. Her judicial review provides that she must live with her father in Grenoble, her birthplace, with a weekly check-in and a ban on contact with players and the PSG club.
“Media rage”
Considered to be the sponsor of this attack committed in November 2021 in Chatou (Yvelines), the player participated on Wednesday in the debate before the judge of freedoms and detention (JLD), in Versailles. She arrived at the hearing handcuffed and dressed in black jogging, a puffer jacket and black sneakers, her face closed and her eyes haggard.
The debates took place behind closed doors at the request of the prosecution and the defense because “the colossal leaks of the investigation serve Ms. Diallo”, estimated one of her lawyers, Me Romain Ruiz, during the hearing.
“There is nothing in the file today that allows us to link Aminata Diallo to the attackers and to the attack suffered by Kheira Hamraoui”, declared in the evening another of his lawyers, Me Mourad Battikh, on the set of the TPMP show, on C8. “There is no material element”, he added, denouncing a “media relentlessness” once morest his client.
Four men designate her as “sponsor”
In this case, four men born between 1999 and 2003 were also indicted for the same counts of “criminal association” and “aggravated violence”. Two were imprisoned and two placed under judicial control.
While in police custody, questioned by investigators from the Crime Prevention Brigade (BRB) of the judicial police, they implicated Aminata Diallo, presenting the former PSG player as “the sponsor of the violence, for allow him to occupy the victim’s position in future competitions”, according to the prosecution.
But the exact sequence of events is not yet clearly established by the investigators. Among the four men prosecuted, one admitted having kicked, the other three said they had been present at the scene of the attack.
On November 4, 2021, in Chatou, Kheira Hamraoui was attacked with iron bars and beaten in the legs by two men, in front of Aminata Diallo, while the two players were driving home together from a team dinner. Diallo was first placed in police custody before being released without prosecution.
A “hate”
The player, at the heart of this affair, harbored a “hate” once morest Hamraoui once morest a background of sporting rivalry, according to the investigation report cited by Le Parisien and confirmed to AFP by another source familiar with the matter.
Wiretapped by investigators, she would also be in close contact with César M., player agent, with whom she would have exerted pressure during the investigation, according to this report.
Kheira Hamraoui’s relationship with several of her teammates, in particular Marie-Antoinette Katoto and Kadidiatou Diani, had deteriorated sharply following the attack, the latter accusing her of the first police custody of Aminata Diallo.
The instruction was extended to the head of “organized fraud”, but in this section, no indictment has so far taken place.
The attack had earned Kheira Hamraoui several stitches in his legs and hands and greatly disrupted his 2021-2022 season during which the midfielder, under contract with PSG until 2023, was removed from the group. . She was reinstated in the PSG team on Tuesday and was present on Wednesday evening in the stands of the Jean-Bouin stadium in Paris, where the women of PSG beat the Swedes of Häcken in the first leg of the Champions League.
“Let my honor be washed away”
“Today, I trust justice to bring out the truth and clear my honor. I can’t wait for my name to be associated only with the sports pages once more and leave the legal columns,” she said. wrote in a statement, posted on social media on Saturday.
The message is accompanied by photos showing the injuries to her hands and legs resulting from her attack, an attack during which, she says, she “thought she died” and which “haunts her night and day”.
With AFP
