5:39 p.m., September 30, 2022
This is a new case which Paris-Saint-Germain would have done well. According to our information, Sandy Baltimore, 22, striker of the Parisian club, is the subject of a complaint for “violence resulting in incapacity for work not exceeding 8 days”. A complaint filed on May 3 with the Asnières-sur-Seine police station and which the JDD was able to consult. Sophia*, the complainant, aged 21 and ex-friend of the French international, begins her story by explaining that she had ” a disagreement “ in February with Sandy Baltimore. The two young women would then have stopped talking to each other. Several weeks later, the complainant indicated that she had received an SMS sent by Sandy Baltimore asking her to meet her to ” discuss “.
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four punches
Sophia accepts and sets an appointment with him at the foot of his building, on May 2, around 11 p.m. in Bois-Colombes, in the Hauts-de-Seine. That’s when the situation escalated. “I found that Mrs. Baltimore was very aggressive towards me, she was making big gestures in my direction, so I asked her why she was making such big gestures like that, if she was doing this to hit me, entrusts the complainant to the police officer who took her complaint, the day after the incident. That’s when she quickly punched me three times in the face. She followed up with a fourth punch that knocked me to the ground. I did not lose consciousness but I was paralyzed. »
Sophia claims to have managed to get up while the PSG player is calmed down by a friend who accompanies her, still according to her statements to the police. Municipal police on patrol then intervene before the victim, groggy, is transported by firefighters to Beaujon hospital in Clichy. The doctor who examines him notes a bruise on the cheek and an edema on the level of the lips. Five days after the events, the complainant, “in a state of post-traumatic shock with sleep disturbance”, according to a practitioner of the forensic unit of the Garches hospital, is finally granted three days of total incapacity for work (ITT).
“She did not measure the consequences of her gesture”
Solicited, this Thursday, by the JDD, Sandy Baltimore delivered his version of the facts, in the company of his agent, Karim Belhoul. Of Sophia, she speaks of it as“a sister”. “He was a person I held in high esteem, she adds. But there were too many things, lies and betrayals. It became a toxic relationship. To push myself to the limit, you have to be very strong, but I broke down. We were just supposed to have a chat but when we got face to face and she lied to me eye to eye, it was too much, the tone rose. I struck a first blow, then we fought in quotes. »
The international with 17 caps – whom Corinne Deacon did not call back for the next two matches for the France team in October – discovered that a complaint had been lodged against her at the time of this interview. “I did not know it but I will give my version of the facts to the police”, she continues. ” After this clash, people around him threatened to harm my career.still loose the one who remains silent when asked the question of whether she regrets her gesture.
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“Sandy is still young, reminds his agent. She did not measure the consequences of her gesture. I have known her for many years. This girl must have really pushed her to get her to react like that. Sandy is now a public figure who has to pay attention to everything she does, but she’s also still a human being. »
Contacted, Sophia’s lawyer, Me Karim Morand-Lahouazi, is surprised that “This complaint, filed almost five months ago, has not already given rise to Mrs. Baltimore’s hearing, what is more with the intervention of the municipal police in flagrante delicto”. “We are now waiting for the investigation service to finally take hold of this case,” he concludes.
* The complainant’s first name has been changed.