Paul assures that Mathias acts beneath stress

Within the Pogba case, Paul estimated with the investigators that his brother Mathias was beneath stress from the alleged racketeers, stated Sunday France Information, which consulted the minutes of a second listening to, in August, of the soccer world champion .

The thesis of a Mathias Pogba “beneath stress” had already been talked about to AFP by a supply near the household.

France Information additionally claims that Pogba denied throughout this second listening to having employed a marabout to forged a spell on the star of the French workforce Kylian Mbappé.

In response to earlier data from France Information, confirmed to AFP by a supply near the case, Paul Pogba had confided to the investigators, throughout a primary listening to, to have been trapped by childhood mates and two hooded males, armed with assault rifles, blaming him for not serving to them financially. A sum of 13 million euros would have been claimed from him, and he claims to have paid 100,000 euros.

Among the many suspects, he claims to have acknowledged his older brother Mathias.

The Paris prosecutor’s workplace on Friday opened a judicial investigation into the extortion denounced by the star of the French soccer workforce and Juventus Turin.

A preliminary investigation was opened a month in the past in Paris into this unbelievable affair, initiated following a grievance filed by Paul Pogba on July 16 with the Turin prosecutor’s workplace. The investigations have been entrusted to 2 investigating magistrates, introduced Friday the Paris prosecutor, Laure Beccuau, in a press launch.

A judicial investigation in opposition to X for “extortion with a weapon in an organized gang, kidnapping or sequestration with launch earlier than the seventh day in an organized gang to organize or facilitate the fee of against the law or an offense and participation in a felony affiliation in view to commit against the law”.

The affair got here to gentle after the publication on August 27 of an enigmatic video of Mathias Pogba, the participant’s older brother and himself an expert footballer, who promised “revelations” about Paul.

The latter, his adviser Rafaela Pimenta and his mom, Yeo Moriba, additionally the mom of Mathias, had talked about in a press launch “threats and makes an attempt at extortion in an organized gang” in opposition to Paul Pogba.