Published on : 15/06/2022 – 01:26Modified : 15/06/2022 – 01:24
Paris (AFP) – International midfielder Kheira Hamraoui says she “needs the truth to come out” about the assault she suffered at the end of 2021, by hooded men who hit her with an iron bar, in a first speech Tuesday evening in The Team.
“A lot of questions torment me: why me? Why so much violence towards my person? I need the truth to come out to calm me down,” said the PSG player (32) in an interview broadcast Tuesday evening on the site. daily sports.
“I experienced an attack of incredible violence,” she says. “Two hooded strangers took me out of the car I was in to beat me in the legs with iron bars. That evening, I really thought I was going to stay there… I was screaming of pain. I tried to protect myself as much as possible. This scene, for me, lasted five minutes. It was unbearable. I have very painful, very heavy memories of it”.
“I experienced a real ambush. These individuals were waiting for me behind a truck. They were in the right place at the right time. How could they have been so well informed? ‘today”, she also advances.
Asked about having directed the investigators to her teammate Aminata Diallo, present on November 4, 2021 at the time of the attack, she replied: “I am not speaking today to talk about the judicial investigation. One thing is certain, I was the victim of a terrible attack. I will not participate in this + media court +, it does not make sense to me”.
“Thousands of people, journalists, bloggers, youtubers have spoken about my attack without knowing anything. Many false things have been said”, noted Hamraoui again who, “under contract with PSG until June 2023”, is is “at the disposal of the club for next season like all players under contract”.
Regarding her relationship with ex-player Eric Abidal, when he was sporting director of FC Barcelona and she a player of the Spanish club, she replied: “The subject of Eric Abidal is not one and has no related to the aggression of which I was the victim”.
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