In the turmoil since the violent attack on Kheira Hamraoui, Paris Saint-Germain had asked this Friday the postponement of the shock match against Lyon, scheduled for Sunday. But the French Football Federation (FFF), organizer of the Women’s D1 Championship, declined the Parisian club’s request, made in the afternoon, AFP learned from corroborating sources in the evening.
Kheira Hamraoui’s teammate at PSG, Aminata Diallo, came out free on Thursday after two days in police custody. The two footballers were absent during training behind closed doors this Friday morning at the Bougival training center (Yvelines), where a security device had been put in place. Kheira Hamraoui and Aminata Diallo, put to rest on Friday, were to meet during the day Ulrich Ramé, the manager of the women’s section of PSG, the club told AFP. The press conference initially planned with coach Didier Ollé-Nicolle and a player, Friday noon, was also canceled by the club for fear that all the questions relate to this affair two days from the OL-PSG poster , Sunday at Groupama Stadium.
Pounding with an iron bar
The reigning French champions made a perfect start to the championship, with seven wins in as many matches played. The Lyonnaises are ahead of them in the standings because of a better goal difference. A new training session is scheduled for Saturday morning, before leaving for Lyon at the end of the day.
On November 4, Kheira Hamraoui, was assaulted by two hooded individuals in Chatou (Yvelines), after a dinner organized by PSG at the Chalet des Îles, a plush restaurant in the Bois de Boulogne. The former FC Barcelona midfielder was “Badly beaten on the legs with an iron bar” by two men who then fled, according to the prosecutor of Versailles. Witness to the scene, Aminata Diallo, who was driving the car in which her teammate was extracted by her attackers, was arrested Wednesday and then placed in police custody, before being released Thursday evening without any charge being brought against she.
“Aminata Diallo deplores the perfectly artificial staging of a rivalry”
The latter “Formally disputes the charges”, of which she was the object after the assault of which she and her teammate Kheira Hamraoui were victims, said Friday her lawyer Mourad Battikh in a statement sent to AFP. “Aminata Diallo deplores the perfectly artificial staging of a rivalry between her and Kheira Hamraoui which would justify her attacking her teammate, continues the lawyer. This theory does not correspond to the true nature of their relationship. ” The player “Regrets the media frenzy which has already condemned her, without foundation, and she recalls that she will not hesitate to defend her rights in court if necessary against any defamation”, continues the text. “She fully cooperated by facilitating the work of the investigators and came out free”, recalls his lawyer.
In Lyon, the custody of a friend of the two players also questioned as part of the investigation also ended without follow-up on Thursday. “It has absolutely nothing to do with this aggression, told AFP his lawyer Frédéric Lalliard. He explained that he did indeed know the two players, and that he had had telephone contact with them in the past, but unrelated to this affair. “
Investigators from the Versailles judicial police traced back to this 34-year-old man by discovering communications from a telephone located near the Lyon-Corbas remand center, where he has been in pre-trial detention for more than nine months in an extortion and forcible confinement case. “He has been in the world of football for a long time, he knows several players, some exchanges with Parisian players go back more than six months”, confirms his lawyer.
Update at 8:20 p.m .: addition of the rejection of the request to postpone the OL-PSG meeting.
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