PSG right-back and Moroccan international Achraf Hakimi was indicted on Thursday for rape, AFP reported on Friday. A 24-year-old woman accuses him of having raped her last Saturday at his home in Boulogne-Billancourt, in the western suburbs of Paris. Contacted, the footballer’s lawyer, Me Fanny Colin, reacts by means of a press release sent to The Team and affirms that “During his hearing, carried out at his express request, Achraf Hakimi firmly denied the accusations made against him”.
“I remind you that the indictment measure that followed this hearing is a must for anyone who is the subject of an accusation of rape and finally offers Mr. Hakimi the possibility of defending himself by opening up a large number of of rights, in the first place that of perusing the file”she continues.
“After the few hours of hearing I remember for my part that the informant refused to file a complaint, refused to submit to the slightest medical or psychological examination and refused to be confronted with Achraf Hakimi even though the prosecution does not rests exclusively on his words., adds the black dress again. Before concluding : “In my opinion, it follows from the documents which are in the hands of the judicial police that Mr. Hakimi has, in this case, been the subject of an attempted racketeering. »
The alleged victim’s lawyer does not wish to publicize the case
An accusation to which the young woman’s lawyer, Me Rachel-Flore Pardo, did not wish to respond, specifying that it did not evoke her ” Nothing “. “My client has chosen to confide in the justice system and will only speak in front of her”, she says, saying that she does not intend to publicize this file. The young woman would have said that she did not yet feel ready for a confrontation with the player.
According The Parisian, she went the day after the events, Sunday February 26, to a police station in Val-de-Marne, but said she did not want to file a complaint. She had said that she met Achraf Hakimi in January on the Instagram social network and went to his home on Saturday in a VTC ordered by the player.
She reports that Achraf Hakimi kissed her and touched her without her consent, before raping her, according to a police source interviewed by AFP. She then claims to have managed to free herself and left thanks to a friend who came to pick her up in front of the footballer’s home.
