There is something new, again, in the Pogba Affair. Mathias, the brother of the player of the French team Paul Pogba, as well as three other people, were taken into custody between Tuesday September 13 and Wednesday September 14reported The world. He “presented itself, Wednesday afternoon, “to the investigation department” before being placed in police custody according to a source close to the file. Note that the respective lawyers of the two brothers did not react to this new information.
This incarceration follows the opening on September 2, by the Paris prosecutor’s office, of“a judicial investigation against X of the counts of extortion with a weapon in an organized gang, kidnapping or sequestration with release before the seventh day in an organized gang to prepare or facilitate the commission of a crime or an offense and participation in an association of criminals with a view to committing a crime”.
His brother Mathias Pogba among the attackers?
As a reminder, on August 3, a preliminary investigation targeting Paul Pogba was opened by the Paris prosecutor’s office for “extortion and attempted extortion in an organized gang”, following recent statements by his older brother Mathias. The footballer had filed a complaint with the Turin prosecutor’s office on July 16. The Italian authorities then alerted the Paris prosecutor’s office on August 1 to “facts likely to have happened in France” in connection with this complaint, according to a judicial source. After the opening of an investigation in France, Paul Pogba was summoned to be heard, at the beginning of August, at the premises of the Central Office for the Fight against Organized Crime (Oclco), in Nanterre, in charge of investigations.
The player had assured that childhood friends would have started to put pressure on him at the end of March, on the sidelines of a rally of the France team in Clairefontaine (Yvelines). The latter would have reproached him for not having supported them financially. They would then have reminded him that they had discreetly ensured his safety during his thirteen years of professional career. The international, who shared a video in early September to reassure his fans, said he identified his brother, Mathias Pogba, among the alleged racketeers.
He then alerted the lawyers of the Juventus club where he plays, before filing a complaint in Italy. A judicial investigation was also opened on Tuesday August 30 by the Turin public prosecutor’s office for “blackmail and aggravated extortion“.