This is a case that dates back to 2018 and since then suspicions have continued to hang over Eric Abidal and two former managers of FC Barcelona. In 2011, the former player of the France team was diagnosed with a liver tumor and after a first operation, the former athlete, now 42 years old, needed a liver transplant. Then come on stage Gerard Armand, who presents himself as the first cousin of the father of five children. Problem, according to information released by the Spanish media El Confidentialafter a review by the National Institute of Toxicology, no proof of parenthood would exist between the two men.
Information that comes in addition to the investigation underway since 2017 and which must rule on the possible irregularities that could have taken place during this transplant carried out in 2012. After being defended by his daughter Meliana and his ex-wife Hayet , Éric Abidal has just had a new weight support since it is Gérard Armand himself. “Eric is really my first cousin. His father is my mother’s brother, and I had brought the birth certificate to prove it when I was summoned to Barcelona in court.“he defends himself in comments reported by The Parisian.
From the start, this story has been shady. I thought, the longer this case takes, the weirder it gets
If he could be heard by the Spanish courts soon in this case, Gérard Armand affirms in any case that he has not had good relations with Éric Abidal for several years. “I haven’t heard from him in four years. When the case came out (in 2018), we got confused. I had told him that it was not a man. Since then, nothing morehe says, before charging the former footballer: “I’m not going to lie to you, I knew it was going to come to this. From the start, this story has been shady. I thought to myself, the longer this case takes, the weirder it gets. It’s been going on for four years though. There, I worry. And I don’t trust him at all anymore.”.
A testimony with two meanings therefore since Gérard Armand affirms with certainty to be the first cousin of Éric Abidal, but does not hesitate to charge him quite violently at the same time.