This is a New Year that he will not easily forget … Paris handball player SG Elohim Prandi was stabbed on New Year’s Eve, his club announced on Saturday January 1, 2022. By the following, an investigation was opened. The athlete should miss an important competition.
“Elohim Prandi was the victim of a violent assault last night in Paris and suffered several stab wounds. The player is currently under observation at the hospital and his condition does not give cause for concern. The Paris Police Prefecture is seized of the investigation“, indicates the PSG in a press release reported by AFP. investigation was opened on the count of attempted homicide and entrusted to the judicial police, revealed the Paris prosecutor’s office. The attack took place Friday evening in a street in the 8th arrondissement of the capital, said two sources close to the investigation.
Elohim Prandi, left back in the 10 selections, announced himself as a basic man of the France team at the next Euro, organized from January 13 to 30 in Hungary and Slovakia. He is now moving towards a package for the tournament … Despite the disappointment, his club did not fail to wish him a speedy recovery. “Our thoughts are with the player, his family and loved ones!“, could we read on Instagram, in caption of one of the player. If he did not participate in the Olympic Games in Tokyo, Elohim Prandi had been retained in the pre-list before being excluded for the benefit of players having played in the qualifying tournament, which he missed due to injury.
The 23-year-old, born in Istres, would add to an (already) long list of absentees: those of Olympic champions Timothey N’Guessan, Nedim Remili and Luka Karabatic, all three injured. As for Luka’s brother, Nikola Karabatic, three-time Olympic champion and French handball star, he was unavailable for this first internship due to a coronavirus infection including “two or three rather difficult days with a lot of symptoms“, had described his brother.