INFO LE FIGARO – Six men, including the player’s older brother, Mathias Pogba, appear in court from this Tuesday for their involvement in this vast affair of attempted extortion. The group had ordered Paul Pogba to pay 13 million euros to two robbers who were never arrested.
He will not take a place on the civil party’s bench. According to our information, the pillar of the Blues Paul Pogba will not attend the trial of the six men referred to the Paris criminal court for having kidnapped him in 2022, and tried to extort 13 million euros from him. Among these men are childhood friends of Paul Pogba, but also his older brother, Mathias Pogba, prosecuted for “attempted extortion” and “criminal association”.
Since his career took an international turn, the 2018 world champion, who grew up in the Renardière district, in Roissy-en-Brie (Seine-et-Marne), continued to maintain friendly relations with those close to him of the city. Licensed to Manchester United at the time, then to Juventus in Turin, Paul Pogba returned to La Renardière thanks to training in France, at Clairefontaine (Yvelines), with the Blues. He had gotten into the habit of providing for the needs of this group of friends by employing them in his service, rewarding them occasionally, generously, with a few thousand euros, or by injecting money into the open restaurant. by several of them.
During the judicial investigation, he spoke of his links with the neighborhood, and more specifically this group of friends, who continued to gravitate around him on the sidelines of matches and his training: “I wanted to help them. (…) When I visited, I gave cash to the parents, some have children. It made me happy (…) I really thought I was making a nice gesture.”
“Everyone will be safe”
But since the end of 2021, Paul Pogba has decided to distance himself from the Fox, tired of seeing these loved ones living on his hook. They, ever more greedy, then asked him for an astronomical sum, 7 million euros. “They told me: “After this amount, we will no longer ask you anything, we will leave you alone, everyone will be safe.” Paul Pogba told investigators at the time. In the car where they accompany him to Clairefontaine, the player refuses, and instead pays them each 5,000 euros.
On March 19, 2022, the story of this group of friends who fracture against a backdrop of financial dependence changes. At the end of a dinner at La Renardière, Paul Pogba is ordered to dismiss his driver who is waiting for him, and to get into a car with Adama and Boubacar C., as well as Roushdane K, a “big” of the city, known for having served a long prison sentence. All three lead him to an apartment in Montévrain, rented by Adama C., and where two other faces familiar to Pogba await them: those of Machikour K. and Mamadou M.
They shouted: “KEEP YOUR MOUTH LOWER YOUR EYES” while pointing at me
Paul Pogba, in front of investigators
When suddenly, Roushdane K., who is leading the confrontation, orders the group to leave the room, with the exception of Adama C. and Paul Pogba. “He told me that when he was in prison, there were great people from Paris. That he had heard my name and told them “no one touches Pogba, he’s my little brother’s friend””describes Paul Pogba to investigators. “He said two people were protecting me without me knowing. (…) But that my protection was over and that they wanted their money.” The amount? 13 million euros.
Mysterious robbers
Two robbers, hooded and wearing bulletproof vests, then enter the apartment. They point handguns at Paul Pogba. Eyes downcast, hands on head, he tries to argue. “But they shouted: “KEEP YOUR MOUTH LOWER YOUR EYES” while pointing at me”says Paul Pogba, in his complaint, in August 2022. “Under threat, I told them I was going to pay.”
In the months that followed, the player, who was refused by his bank to release the funds, suffered repeated and increased pressure from the group. They use a strong argument: according to their statements, they would be threatened with death by the two mysterious robbers, as long as Paul Pogba has not paid his “debt” to them. The group of friends will go so far as to call on Mathias Pogba, one of Paul’s two older brothers, to encourage him to pay.
In August 2022, he went to the player’s training center in Turin to confront him again, before publishing a viral video about his brother, in which he claimed that he had resorted to a marabout to cast a spell on Killian Mbappé. During the investigations, the two robbers who pointed their weapons at Paul Pogba were never arrested.
