It’s been a while since Paul Pogba He stopped making headlines for his impressive plays and goals as a footballer. The 31-year-old footballer was recently banned for four years for testing positive for testosterone. But first, the former Manchester United He had legal problems with his family. The Frenchman had to endure an attempted extortion and kidnapping in 2022. Now his brother Mathias He will be tried for his connection to this event which shook the family.
Mathias Pogba, He will be tried for attempted blackmail against his brother Paul (world champion with France in 2018 and currently suspended for doping) and for criminal association in a sordid affair in which the footballer was extorted and kidnapped in 2022. As reported by the French prosecutor’s office, the brother of the former Manchester United He could be sentenced to at least five years in prison. A trial date has not yet been announced.
This approach is a new via crucis for the talented French midfielder (31 years old and 91 international matches), suspended in 2024 for four years due to a positive testosterone test while he was a player in the Juventus Turin
Next to Mathias Pogba34 years old, will sit on the bench Paris Criminal Court Roushdane K., Adama C., Boubacar C., Mamadou M. and Mohamed Machikour K., all from the circle of friends of Pogba originally from the commune of Roissy-en-Brie and suspected of having extorted and kidnapped the footballer for several hours.
This last charge – that of kidnapping with a firearm for which Mathias was not incriminated – is the most serious one weighing on the group of childhood friends. The night of March 19 to 20, 2022during a concentration of the French team, Paul He went to visit his friends who took him to an apartment in Lagny-sur-Marne (Parisian suburb).
Where he was not present MathiasBut the other defendants did so, and hooded men armed with assault rifles burst in, demanding 13 million euros in exchange for protection services. They held the midfielder for several hours, during which time the player admitted to being “scared”.
Investigation into Pogba’s brother
During the police investigation, the accused defended themselves by claiming that they were acting under pressure from another group. After this event, Paul Pogba Frightened, he tried to transfer $11 million, but his bank refused due to security measures.
Later and supposedly helped by MathiasThe other defendants put pressure on and harassed the French international and his entourage (his mother Yeo Moriba and his representative, the Brazilian Rafaela Pimenta) for months.
In August 2022 and while the investigation had been ongoing for weeks, Paul’s brother decided to make the case public with a bizarre video, in which he spoke of “surprising revelations” about the then Juve midfielder and Kylian Mbappé. Mathias recounted that his brother had hired a sorcerer to cast an evil eye on the forward of the PSG and colleague of the national team, an extreme denial by the former footballer of the Manchester United.
