Marcel Desailly Paternity Case: Former France Defender Faces DNA Test and Legal Proceedings

2023-10-09 09:26:29

As Le Parisien revealed in January, the former defender of the France team, Marcel Desailly, 55, is being prosecuted for recognition of paternity by an ex-partner. While a hearing before the Paris court should be held soon, the former OM and AC Milan player will soon take a DNA test.

The noose seems to be tightening around Marcel Desailly. The former defender of the France team (55 years old, 116 selections in 1993 and 2004) is the subject of legal proceedings for recognition of paternity, a case revealed in January by The Parisian. Cosma Batista de Alcantara, who was his partner between 2010 and 2018, is fighting for the former player who played for Nantes, OM, AC Milan and even Chelsea to recognize being the father of Victoria, born in 2014. A girl that Marcel Desailly never recognized. A hearing before the Paris judicial court should be held soon, reports the Ile-de-France daily this Monday.

He tried to convince his ex-partner to drop his legal action

In 2016, Marcel Desailly, father of four “legitimate” children with his first wife, had already been recognized by the courts as the father of another illegitimate child, Aïda, born in 1990. Concerning the procedure launched by Cosma Batista de Alcantara , Marcel Desailly requested a DNA paternity test. The 98 world champion might not legally have escaped this step that his ex-partner had also requested.

He will have to convince the courts that despite numerous documents (photos, videos) attesting to the couple’s intimacy and their closeness to little Victoria until she was seven years old, he is not the child’s father. . Marcel Desailly has not seen the young girl since 2021. Still according to Le Parisien, this summer, he proposed by SMS to Cosma Batista de Alcantara to abandon her legal action once morest the payment of 500 euros monthly. In vain. Cosma Batista de Alcantara and her lawyer are demanding 5,000 euros. Marcel Desailly assured them that he was no longer capable of paying such a high amount, arguing that he no longer has the same income as in the past.

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