The wife of the former player of the Barcelona Éric Abidal, Hayet Abidal, whose name was involved in the investigation into the assault suffered in November by the footballer of the PSG Kheira Hamraoui, said on Monday that she felt betrayed and taken “for an idiot”, and called the player and her husband’s lover “evil”. “I opened the doors of my house to him. I went to support her in her matches in Barcelona. My kids still remember her. […] “This girl is evil,” he said in an interview with the French newspaper.The Parisian‘.
All three met in Barcelona, as the player was at the Catalan club from 2018 to June 2021 and the former French international was Barça’s sporting director between 2018 and 2020. Hamraoui, 32, was beaten on the legs with an iron bar by two hooded men on the night of November 4, on the outskirts of Paris, while driving with his PSG teammate Aminata Diallo.
“I have nothing to do with it”
Investigators questioned Diallo about the possibility of her hiring assassins to injure Hamraoui and secure a place at PSG, but she was released without charge, and possible personal revenge was also explored. “I have nothing to do with this case,” said Hayet Abidal, who was married in 2007 to the former player and mother of five children. Hayet claims to have learned of the extramarital affair after the assault and filed for divorce when Eric Abidal confessed. “Our marriage has gone through a lot of ups and downs that I prefer not to talk about, and of course Kheira Hamraoui was not the first. Eric did not apologize in my face and has never defended me from the accusations or rumors that weighed on me “, he lamented.
When they were friends
Hayet Abidal says she is hurt because when the player arrived in Barcelona they became friends. “I helped her integrate, as I do with a lot of players and players. Until I discovered, after a while, that I was behaving strangely and sometimes out of place with my husband and other men. I didn’t hear from her again until this story, “he said. Hayet Abidal believes that Diallo is another collateral victim and sees the possibility of a deceived woman wanting revenge as “feasible”.
Many messages
According to information published in November on the case, Diallo and Hamraoui heard one of the assailants say, “So what’s the matter? Do we go to bed with married men? ‘ “I have received an incredible amount of messages on Instagram of husbands and wives, famous or not, who have gone through the same thing as me and Kheira Hamraoui. Investigators have a lot of work ahead of them, “Hayet Abidal told Le Parisien, stressing that Hamraoui may not be telling the whole truth.
