Le Monde Monday published part of Paul Pogba’s testimony, which the midfielder gave to French police in his extortion case. While being held at gunpoint by two men, Pogba is said to have promised an accomplice to pay millions of euros. Pogba’s brother Mathias (ex-Sparta Rotterdam) is already in custody because of the case. Despite this, Pogba would be under police protection according to Le Parisien.
According to Pogba’s statement, on March 19 this year, he was said to have spent hours with a childhood friend in Roissy-en-Brie, the commune where he grew up. Just before the 91-time French international was about to return to his hotel in Paris, he was led by other friends from his old neighborhood to an apartment in nearby Chanteloup-en-Brie. There Pogba’s phone was confiscated, whereupon two heavily armed masked men appeared. Roushdane K., one of Pogba’s longtime acquaintances, demanded that the Juventu midfielder pay €13 million in exchange for “protection the two men would have given him for years.” Out of fear, Pogba would have agreed.
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Le Monde writes that a total of five relatives of Pogba would be involved in the extortion case. Each of them, including Mathias, has since been charged. Pogba’s relatives themselves claim to be victims of ‘a second ring of blackmailers’. Mathias’ now famous TikTok video would also have been placed in that light. At the end of August, he announced “explosive revelations” about his brother three years younger in the video and made threats against him. Mathias also mentioned the names of Paul’s agent Rafaela Pimenta and compatriot Kylian Mbappé.
“The whole world, as well as the fans of my brother and especially the French team and Juventus, my brother’s teammates and his sponsors, deserve to know certain things,” Mathias said in the video message at the end of August. “They need to have this information and make an informed decision about whether he deserves respect and love from the fans, and whether he deserves to play for Juventus and get a place in France’s World Cup roster,” the current World Cup squad said. incarcerated attacker.
In a response on behalf of the family, Paul already said that the threats from his brother are “no surprise” and that criminals are behind the extortion. “It is in addition to threats and extortion attempts by an organized gang against Paul Pogba,” the Pogba family said in a statement. RMC Sports previously reported that Paul had previously paid around one hundred thousand euros to his blackmailers, but that this was not enough for them.