Trial of the kidnapping of Paul Pogba: “I saw my brother being shot” – France – Justice

The watered sprinkler theory.

This Wednesday, during the trial of the kidnapping of Paul Pogba, a first accused, Machikour K., spoke about the night of March 19 when the armed attack in an apartment in Montévrain. During his interrogation, he spoke at length about the attacks of which the co-defendants claim to be victims at the hands of unidentified blackmailers to justify the pressure put on Paul Pogba and his mother Yeo Moriba to encourage them to interact with the alleged attackers demanding 13 million euros.

In August 2022, he said he accompanied his big brother Roushdane to a scheduled meeting « around Noisy le Sec » by the blackmailers through a “piece of paper left in his father’s mailbox”. Taken to a box under a building where hooded individuals awaited themhis brother would then have assured that he could no longer act as guarantor regarding the payment of the ransom by Paul Pogba. Roushdane then intervened while the attackers threatened Machikour, and would then have received a bullet fired at close range in the hand.

Later, the little brother would “received a video of the attack on a phone left in (his) mailbox”. “That was all it had on it. I got rid of the phone while keeping a copy of the video”explained the person concerned. « I was driven by fear », said the 36-year-old man to justify the absence of filing a complaint following these facts. “I saw my brother get shot, it wasn’t a joke. I was traumatized. »

Today should follow the interrogations of the other accused. Namely, that of Adama C., the tenant of the Montévrain apartment, and Mamadou M., the wedding witness and confidant whom Paul Pogba accused of having taken 200,000 euros from him. According to the evolution of the debates, between today and tomorrow Roushdane K., supposed instigator in the organization of the “friendly meeting” having turned into an ambush, Boubacar C., Adama's brother and former driver of Pogba's mother, and finally, that of Mathias Pogba.

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