Hamraoui case: Aminata Diallo released but the prosecution appeals

After five days of pre-trial detention, she comes out of prison: the footballer Aminata Diallo, indicted for “aggravated violence” and ” conspiracy ” in the investigation into the attack on her former teammate at Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) Kheira Hamraoui, was released and placed on Wednesday, September 21 under judicial supervision. 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 specified.

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The international, 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. 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.

mastermind of aggression

The debates took place behind closed doors at the request of the prosecution and the defense because “the colossal leaks of the investigation serve Mrs. Diallo”estimated one of his lawyers, master Romain Ruiz, during the hearing. “Today there is nothing in the file that allows us to link Aminata Diallo to the attackers and to the attack suffered by Kheira Hamraoui”said in the evening another of his lawyers, master Mourad Battikh, on the set of the program TPMP, on C8. “There is no material element”he added, denouncing a “media frenzy” against his client.

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In this case, four men born between 1999 and 2003 were also indicted on the same charges.” conspiracy “ and “aggravated violence”. Two were imprisoned and two placed under judicial supervision. 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, to allow him to occupy the position of the victim during future competitions” according to the floor. Among the four men prosecuted, one admitted having kicked, the other three said they had been present at the scene of the attack.

“Hate” against Hamraoui

The player, at the heart of this affair, nurtured a ” hate “ against Hamraoui on a background of sporting rivalry, according to the investigation report cited by The Parisian 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 after the attack, the latter accusing her of the first police custody of Aminata Diallo.

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The instruction has been extended to the chief “organized gang fraud”, but in this section, no indictment has yet taken place. The attack had earned Kheira Hamraoui several stitches in his legs and hands and severely 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.

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“Today, I trust justice to bring out the truth and my honor to be cleared. I can’t wait for my name to be associated only with the sports pages again and leave the legal columns”, she wrote in a press release, published on Saturday on social networks. The message is accompanied by photos showing the injuries to her hands and legs resulting from her assault, an attack in which, she says, she was “believed to die” and who the “haunts night and day”.