For a week, Mathias Pogba has been sleeping in prison. The 32-year-old footballer is accused of trying to extract millions of euros from his little brother Paul Pogba and has been indicted for extortion in an organized gang and participation in a criminal conspiracy. Like him, four other suspects in this case have been remanded in custody.
As the investigation continues, and new videos of Mathias Pogba have been posted while he is incarcerated, The Parisian publishes this Saturday the content of messages sent by Mathias to Paul Pogba. These texts were written a month before the Pogba brothers affair began, when Mathias published his first videos on his social networks, promising heavy revelations about his brother but also about Kylian Mbappé. Mathias Pogba accuses his little brother of having marabouted the young star of PSG and the France team.
A month before the start of the case, a long message was sent from Mathias Pogba’s WhatsApp to his brother, as revealed by the work of the investigators. “Listen to me carefully. Today we almost lost my life, me, Mam’s (Mahamadou Magassa, ex-close friend of Paul Pogba also in pre-trial detention in this case) and the big red hornet (sic) compared to what you did to the little one ‘French team. Today because of your selfishness and your cowardice, we are here“, is it written in this message, with the request for a transfer. Except that Paul Pogba is not convinced that his big brother is at the origin of this message which brings together confused words. “The exact terms of the message make me hesitate. I’m not sure my brother wrote them“, explained the player of Juventus of Turin, in convalescence, to the investigators. The Parisian.