The 2018 world football champion, Paul Pogba, faces his detractors in Paris court. Five people are indicted for kidnapping and extortion by an organized gang.
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French international Paul Pogba was confronted, on the morning of Friday September 15, at the Paris court with five of his relatives, childhood friends or acquaintances, suspected of having had a role in the extortion affair against him. meeting in March 2022, where two robbers demanded 13 million euros from him, franceinfo learned from a source close to the matter.
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The five suspects summoned on Friday September 15 have been indicted since September 2022 for “kidnapping and extortion by an organized gang committed with a weapon”, as well as for “participation in a criminal conspiracy”, to the detriment of the world football champion.
Mathias Pogba, his brother, absent from this confrontation
Paul Pogba’s brother, Mathias Pogba, was not called for this confrontation. He is the sixth man to be indicted in this case. He has since been placed under judicial supervision. He is suspected of having put pressure on his brother for several months to pay the 13 million euros – which he disputes – but he was not present on the very night of the kidnapping, from 19 to 20 March 2022.
During various hearings, the 2018 world champion said he was the victim of threats and attempted extortion. Paul Pogba was notably able to confide to investigators from the Central Office for the Fight against Organized Crime that he had been trapped by childhood friends and two hooded men armed with assault rifles. According to him, the gang demanded 13 million euros from him and has intimidated him several times since, even to the Juventus training center in Turin, where he told the police that he recognized his brother Mathias Pogba among the suspects.