While in police custody, the footballer’s brother admitted to being the source of the threatening video posted on Twitter in August.
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Mathias Pogba admitted during his police custody to be at the origin of the video broadcast on the internet at the end of August, where he threatened to make revelations about his brother Paul Pogba, learned franceinfo Friday September 16 from sources close to the file, confirming information from Parisian.
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The brother of the French international explained to have taken the initiative but not to have written the text and to have recorded it with another man with a heavy criminal past, considered the main suspect in this case by the investigators. Still in police custody, this Friday morning, in the premises of the Nanterre Judicial Police Department, Mathias Pogba is suspected of “sequestration in an organized gang”, “criminal association with a view to committing a crime” and “extortion in organized gang”.
Mathias Pogba denies having participated in the kidnapping of his brother in a Parisian apartment. Paul Pogba explained that he had been trapped by childhood friends and two hooded men armed with assault rifles, claiming 13 million euros from him.
In this file, called “Penalty” by the investigators, several suspects present the same version and claim to have been brutally intimidated by other members of the group. The police custody must end this weekend, learned franceinfo.