At the helm of the Paris criminal court this Friday, November 29, Boubacar, childhood friend of Paul Pogba, is rather talkative and very comfortable. Dressed in a black suit and a white shirt, the man is the fourth defendant questioned by the president in the trial which bears the name of the French world champion.
“He gave me €20,000”
If he first wanted to clarify that he had not “nothing to see, neither near nor far, in this whole story”he returned to a remarkable episode which demonstrates the generosity, perhaps naive, of the midfielder. On March 21, two days after the night of the sequestration in an apartment in Montévrain (Seine-et-Marne), Paul Pogba went to Clairefontaine (Yvelines) in the company of Machikour, Adama and Boubacar.
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In the car before getting off, to honor Didier Deschamps’ summons, “La Pioche”, his nickname, will take out three envelopes and distribute them. He gives €15,000 in cash to Adama and Machikour, which the latter confirmed during their interrogation on Wednesday and Thursday. “He gave me €20,000 and said to me: ‘you will give a little to aunt and uncle’”explains Boubacar, who notably worked with Yeo Moriba, the Pogba’s mother, as a driver.
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