Court orders trial for six folks, together with participant's brother | EUROtoday

Vers a fratricidal trial. This Tuesday, September 10, two investigating judges ordered a trial towards six folks from Paul Pogba's entourage, together with his brother Mathias, for having sequestered the participant and tried to extort funds from him in March 2022.

According to data from France Info – obtained from a supply near the case and confirmed by the Paris prosecutor’s workplace – two investigating judges have ordered a trial for 5 folks for organizing a “meeting” within the Paris suburbs on March 19, 2022, throughout which Paul Pogba was held captive. The sixth particular person, Mathias Pogba, the participant’s brother, is suspected of getting supplied “active assistance” in persuading the French nationwide workforce participant to pay the abductors.

However, in response to the order consulted by the general public service media, the 2 judges think about that “it was not, as some of the accused were able to maintain, a simple “pleasant” meeting to dot the i's or to “set the report straight”. In the 44-page document, the two magistrates on the contrary refer to facts “related to prison legislation”.

Until the trial, the date of which has not yet been set, the five people already placed under judicial supervision (including Mathias Pogba) will have to remain so. The same goes for the man placed in pretrial detention. On France Info, the Paris prosecutor's office indicates that the six defendants risk “between 5 and ten years in jail”.

13 million euros claimed

On March 19, 2022, Paul Pogba, then a participant for the English membership Manchester United, was in France to go to his household in Lagny-sur-Marne, in Seine-et-Marne. Under menace from two strangers armed with assault rifles, he was compelled to observe a number of of his childhood associates to a Parisian residence. There, they requested him for 13 million euros. For comparability, the French midfielder was then incomes round 16 million euros monthly throughout the Channel.

In Manchester in June, then in July in Turin, the place he has simply signed a brand new contract, Paul Pogba sees his racketeers once more. Then the 2018 world champion lastly decides to file a criticism with the attorneys of his new membership.

On February 29, 2024, Paul Pogba was sentenced by the Italian anti-doping tribunal to 4 years of suspension for having examined constructive for testosterone in August 2023. A call which, if not mitigated by an enchantment judgment, might imply the tip of the 31-year-old participant's profession.