Paris SG decided on Thursday to cancel the media activities of its women’s section scheduled for Friday two days before the summit against Olympique Lyonnais in the French Championship, and while its player, Aminata Diallo is still in custody in as part of the investigation into the assault of his teammate, Kheira Hamraoui. The French international PSG midfielder was attacked by masked individuals last week returning from a team dinner, while she was in the car with Aminata Diallo. The latter was arrested Wednesday morning.
In this context, the training initially open to the media on Friday morning in Bougival, in the Yvelines, will be held behind closed doors. The press conference of coach Didier Ollé-Nicolle and a player, scheduled in the wake, will not take place either. The attack on Hamraoui and the arrest of Diallo, revealed by L’Equipe on Wednesday, caused a lot of reaction. In particular the coach of Lyon, the next opponent of the Parisiennes. Sonia Bompastor, said Wednesday that the case was something “necessarily negative” for women’s football. “I’m still a little stunned by this information. Even among the boys, we had never seen such a precedent,” commented the Lyon coach.
At 31, Kheira Hamraoui has 36 caps with the France team. Known face of the round ball, she won the Champions League with FC Barcelona last May, before joining PSG at the start of the season with a starting place. Aminata Diallo (26 years old, 7 caps) occupies the same position as her.