PSG: the aggression of Kheira Hamraoui and the custody of her teammate embarrass the club

Published on : 11/11/2021 – 17:30

Paris Saint-Germain is shaken by the assault on its player Kheira Hamraoui, for which her teammate Aminata Diallo was still in custody, Thursday 11 November. A resounding affair which has many gray areas.

Two days before their duel at the top against Olympique Lyonnais in women’s D1, PSG is in shock: the club has decided to cancel the media activities planned for Friday.

The training will take place behind closed doors in Bougival, the training center of the Parisiennes. While the press conference initially planned with the coach and a player will not take place, for fear that all the questions relate only to the Hamraoui-Diallo affair.

“The longer the custody, the less positive” for Aminata Diallo

Kheira Hamraoui was the victim, last Thursday, in the evening, of a violent ambush.

The French international was driving home with Aminata Diallo from a dinner organized by their club, with Diallo at the wheel. Their vehicle was stopped and Hamraoui was taken out of the car to be “beaten on the legs with an iron bar” by two men who then fled, explained, Wednesday, Maryvonne Caillibotte, the prosecutor of Versailles. .

The player was then taken to hospital to receive stitches.

Arrested Wednesday morning, Aminata Diallo, who plays in the same position as Kheira Hamraoui, was still in custody Thursday at midday, we learned from a source close to the case.

If it must be brought before a judge, it will be Friday morning, added this source which specifies that another PSG player, Sakina Karchaoui, who was for a time in the same car with the two players, was heard on Thursday morning. within the framework of the procedure, without being placed in police custody.

“The longer the custody, the less positive” for Aminata Diallo (26), selected seven times for the France team, worries a source in the entourage of the players, astonishing that she does not still have not sought a lawyer Thursday at noon.

Inseparable on social networks

The group of Paris SG is “very surprised” by this story, according to the same source, because the two players were “friends: they spend their holidays together”. On their respective accounts on social networks, the two players are indeed often found together in the photos.

It is also specified that Kheira Hamraoui did not spend the night in the hospital on the evening of the assault and resumed physical activity, since she was able to “do cardio on a bicycle” on Sunday.

The case casts a shadow on PSG. The story is followed by all the world press, told for example by the Catalan daily Vanguardia. It is also mentioned in the North American press, including the prestigious New York Times, which recalls the Harding-Kerrigan affair which shook the world of figure skating before the 1994 Winter Olympics.

Nancy Kerrigan, silver medalist during these Olympics, had been assaulted a few weeks earlier at the iron bar, in one leg, during an ambush orchestrated by the entourage of Tonya Harding, one of her rivals on ice.

A man in police custody in Lyon

This case did not prevent PSG from crushing, on Tuesday, Real Madrid (4-0) in the Champions League, without Hamraoui, irremovable holder since his return to the capital where she had already played from 2016 to 2018.

Officially unavailable for “a personal concern”, the 31-year-old player, recognizable by her long blond and curly hair, had left, against Real, her place on the field to Diallo, her usual club liner, who played the match almost entirely.

The investigation, triggered by Hamraoui’s complaint filed last Friday, was opened for willful violence with a total interruption of work (ITT) of less than eight days, in a meeting, with weapon and with premeditation.

Aminata Diallo, trained in Lyon after growing up in Grenoble, did not speak during his custody, said the prosecutor of Versailles on Wednesday. In Lyon, a man “who could have a link with the aggression”, but not related to Diallo, was also placed in police custody by the judicial police, added the prosecutor.

With AFP