Legal cases are piling up for Wissam Ben Yedder. Already indicted for rape in the summer of 2023 and due to be tried on October 15 for sexual assault while drunk, the former captain of AS Monaco was referred to the Nice criminal court for “psychological violence » towards his wife.
The 34-year-old former international striker, without a club since the expiration of his contract with Monaco this summer, is summoned to court on December 27 in this case, we learned on Tuesday from judicial sources, who confirmed a daily information The team.
A couple going through a divorce
“The Ben Yedder couple have been separated since May 2023. Divorce proceedings have been initiated and are still in progress. It is in this conflictual context that the accusations of our client’s ex-wife were made,” reacted the player’s lawyers, Messrs Hasna Louzé and Marie Roumiantseva. The player was “interviewed at length by investigators” during police custody in May “and the case was finally closed without further action. We do not know why the prosecution decided to reverse its decision even though no new facts have arisen in this case,” they added.
“If the first orientation, on the basis of the telephone report of the investigators, was in fact more in the direction of a classification, the analysis of the entire file leads to consider that the facts are characterized and justify a prosecution”, for his part explained the public prosecutor of Nice, Damien Martinelli.
Launched into professional football in Toulouse, Wissam Ben Yedder played in Seville in Spain before arriving in 2019 at Monaco, where he became the second top scorer in history. He has 19 caps for the French team.
