This confession of the brother of the French Football International Paul Pogba contradicts the opinion of the latter, who believes him “under pressure” of third people.
Le Monde
According to information from the Parisian confirmed by the agency France-Presse (AFP), Mathias Pogba, older brother of the star footballer of the Blues Paul Pogba, recognized, Thursday, September 15, during his custody in the investigation On the extorts of funds denounced by his brother, having been on the initiative of a video threatening him.
Five police custody – one Tuesday and four Wednesday, including that of Mathias Pogba – were ordered within the framework of a judicial information opened on September 2 in Paris for in particular “extortion with weapon, removal or sequestration in the organized band organized and participation in an association of criminals “.
This incredible affair, which shakes the Blues and more broadly the world of football two months before the World Cup in Qatar, started with a complaint filed on July 16 with the Turin prosecution by Paul Pogba. The Juventus player denounced attempts to extortion there between March and July 2022 quirning at 13 million euros.
trapped by childhood friends
But the facts were revealed in broad daylight only with the publication, on August 27, of an enigmatic video of Mathias Pogba, himself a 32-year-old professional footballer, who promised “revelations” on his brother. He presented himself to the police himself on Wednesday before being placed in police custody. There, he admitted to the initiative of this video, according to a source close to the file cited by Le Parisien.
Now, during an hearing by the investigators, Paul Pogba considered that Mathias was “under pressure” from the people who want to extract money from him. “It is a calm guy, unrecognizable on the video [who triggered the case] where he trembles, he is not like that in life,” added a close to the family contacted by AFP. Last week, Mathias Pogba, by the voice of his former lawyer, said he was “totally foreign to any extortion maneuver with regard to his brother, Paul Pogba”.
Star of the French team, Paul Pogba had told during his first hearing before the investigators that he was trapped by childhood friends and two hooded men, armed with assault rifles, accusing him of not Having helped financially, according to information from Radio France Info, confirmed to AFP by a source close to the file.