PSG player Aminata Diallo “formally disputes the accusations”, which she was subjected to after the assault of which her teammate Kheira Hamraoui was victim on November 4, her lawyer Mourad Battikh said on Friday 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. This theory does not correspond at all to the true nature of their relationship”, continues the lawyer in this press release.
“Other much more serious leads are currently being considered by the investigators not involving my client at all”, says his lawyer. “Aminata Diallo 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.
Diallo, also a French international, aged 26, responded without a lawyer to the investigators of the brigade for the repression of banditry of the judicial police of Versailles. “She fully cooperated in facilitating the work of the investigators and came out free”, recalls his lawyer.
PSG, struck by this affair, asked the French Football Federation for its part to study the postponement of its D1 match scheduled for Lyon on Sunday, AFP learned on Friday from an internal source at the club.
The French women’s D1 champion club “awaits the response from the Federation” (FFF), organizer of the event, we said from the same source, while the Parisians are supposed to go to the Rhône on Saturday for the top of the Championship, scheduled for Sunday evening (9:00 p.m.). Asked by AFP, the FFF had not reacted in the middle of the afternoon.
The two PSG players concerned by the ambush, which occurred on the night of November 4 to 5, did not train on Friday two days before the match, we learned from the club. Rested, the two midfielders were to meet Ulrich Ramé, the manager of the women’s section during the day.
Friday morning, the training session took place behind closed doors at the Bougival training center, in the Yvelines, where a security device had been put in place.
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. “He has absolutely nothing to do with this assault. 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 matter.”, told AFP his lawyer Frédéric Lalliard.
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 this man has been in pre-trial detention since 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 Me Lalliard.