Paul Pogba’s brother, Mathias, was indicted and placed in pre-trial detention on Saturday September 17, as were four of the player’s childhood friends.
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The five men are suspected of being involved in a case of extortion and kidnapping against the international football player. Paul Pogba accuses them of having kidnapped him in March to extract 13 million euros from him.
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This evening in March, the footballer is with four of the indicted in an Airbnb accommodation. He says that armed and hooded men then arrived to threaten him and demand 13 million euros. The identity of these armed men remains a mystery for the moment, but what questions the investigators is the attitude of the relatives of Paul Pogba after this sequestration: several will indeed receive, in the following weeks, large sums of money from the player.
A few days after the sequestration, two friends of Paul Pogba ask the player to take advantage of his partnership with the brand. The footballer allows them a ceiling of 30,000 euros… but the duo robs the store and leaves with 47,000 euros worth of clothes and shoes. It is Paul Pogba who will pay the difference out of his own pocket, visibly under duress. A witness interviewed by investigators indeed recounts a tense discussion between the player and the two friends in the shop, just before Paul Pogba paid the remaining 17,000 euros.
According to our information, several of his childhood friends will also receive large sums of money from the player in the weeks following the kidnapping: 100,000 euros in cash but also 80,000 euros in transfers divided between them. .
According to our information, all of them said in police custody that they were the subject of threats from a group of strangers. According to them, it is this group which claims Paul Pogba the 13 million euros, and which forces them to put pressure on the player. Several recount having been attacked by members of this hooded and armed band; one even says he was shot in the hand and seriously injured.
Mathias Pogba, who admitted to being at the origin of a video of threats against his brother, also says he was the victim of a violent attack. But none of them filed a complaint at the time, and none is able to give precise information on the identity of these mysterious attackers.