Aminata Diallo is a free woman!
The 27-year-old footballer, indicted last Friday for “aggravated violence” and “criminal association” and placed in pre-trial detention, was released on Wednesday, September 21, 2022 and placed under judicial supervision, the Versailles prosecutor’s office told the AFP.
The French international was indicted like four other people, suspected of being the sponsor of the attack on her former teammate at PSG Kheira Hamraoui, against a backdrop of sporting rivalry. “Mrs. Diallo wanted a deferred debate “before the judge of freedoms and detention, after her indictment, “and in the meantime she was temporarily imprisoned“, had explained the parquet floor of Versailles in a press release. The four other people prosecuted were born between 1999 and 2003 and a fifth person, linked to organized crime, is also suspected of being linked to the case.All four implicate Mrs. Diallo (…) as being the sponsor of the violence, to allow her to occupy the position of the victim during future competitions“, explained the prosecution. Among these four men, “three acknowledge their presence on the scene and indicate that they know the reason for their recruitment and their presence. The fourth man admits having struck the victim“, had specified the prosecution. Two were imprisoned and the other two placed under judicial control.
After the aggression on November 4 of Kheira Hamraoui, 32 years old and 39 selections for the France team, the hypothesis of a rivalry between the two players of Paris SG, playing in the same midfield position, had been considered. Aminata Diallo, who has seven selections for the France team, has always strongly contested being involved. In November 2021, she had already been placed in police custody, before coming out free, without charge against her. Since his indictment, many damning elements have leaked, tending to prove that his rivalry with Kheira Hamraoui had become obsessive. To the point of revealing the extramarital relationship between Eric Abidal and Kheira Hamraoui, which led the former footballer to divorce.
Back to aggression
On November 4, 2021, Kheira Hamraoui was attacked in Chatou (Yvelines) with iron bars and beaten on the legs by two men, in front of Aminata Diallo, as they were returning by car from a team dinner. The player was then taken to the hospital to receive stitches. “I experienced a real ambush. These individuals were waiting for me behind a truck. They were in the right place at the right time. How could they be so well informed? These are so many unanswered questions even today.“, she told the newspaper The Team in June. This affair had completely destabilized the PSG locker room and had a negative impact on the sports performance of the two players.
Kheira Hamraoui’s relationship with several of her teammates, in particular Marie-Antoinette Katoto and Kadidiatou Diani, had deteriorated sharply, the latter reproaching her for the first police custody of Aminata Diallo. In the spring, Kheira Hamraoui’s council had alerted PSG to “a campaign of harassment and smear” led by several players against his client.
In a letter sent to the club, he accused Aminata Diallo of having, during the season, “arrested“Kheira Hamraoui’s bodyguard for”threaten“the latter or to have it directly”insulted“.
Under contract with the Parisian club until June 2023, Kheira Hamraoui has been kept away from the professional group since the start of the 2022-2023 season. A situation that she had noted by an usher during a training session last week. A few days ago, she was reinstated in the group.
Aminata Diallo remains presumed innocent of the charges against her until the final closure of this file.