A few hours after Mathias Pogba was placed in police custody, his lawyer, Me Yassine Bouzrou, reacted to M6 and RTL. “Mathias Pogba reported to the police today to be heard“, he explained.
“He strongly denies any participation in the acts of kidnapping and extortion with a weapon of which his brother Paul Pogba would have been the victim“, reaffirms, this Wednesday evening September 14, Me Yassine Bouzrou. A statement which confirms the position of the accused, who said he was “totally foreign” to the extortions denounced by his brother, in a press release published Friday, September 9.
As a reminder, Paul Pogba filed a complaint on July 16 with the Turin public prosecutor’s office for extortion attempts of which he claims to have been the victim between March and July 2022. The footballer would have been trapped by childhood friends who tried to extort him 13 million euros at gunpoint. And the French international says he recognized his older brother Mathias among the suspects.
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