The atmosphere suddenly became heavier in room 2.03 of the Paris Court. At the end of the afternoon of Friday November 29, the fourth day of the Pogba case trial, it was Roushdane K.'s turn to be questioned. He is the only one of the six defendants heard for attempted extortion, kidnapping and kidnapping of the famous football player to appear detained in a glass box. Impressive build and muffled voice, the one that others call “Roush” or “Red” dodged most of the questions concerning the course of the night of March 19 to 20, 2022, which is the heart of the matter, then the different episodes of pressure exerted on Paul Pogba's mother.
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The 39-year-old man with a significant criminal record – he was sentenced to 10 years in prison for attempted murder, then to 5 years for complicity in kidnapping and kidnapping – is seen by the prosecution as the leader of operations aimed at extort a large sum of money from the 2018 world champion. It was he who, on the evening of March 19, came to pick up Paul Pogba and the two Camara brothers to take them to Montévrain's apartment (Seine-et-Marne) where the band planned to “explain” about distancing himself from this childhood friend who became a football star. Then who would have brought in the two hooded and armed men who robbed the player, demanding the payment of 13 million euros for protection that they would have provided without his knowledge in the past. It was also he who then put pressure on the champion's mother, Yeo Moriba, to encourage her son to pay. And him, again, who helps Mathias Pogba to make his video of threats against his brother.
During the five interrogations carried out during the judicial investigation, he provided few details on the course of the events. Saying ” victim “claiming to want to remain silent “for fear of reprisals”or claiming memory loss to justify his lack of answers to investigators. At the hearing, he chained the ” I don't know “, “I don’t remember”, “I don’t want to answer” to specific questions from the president of the court. Cutting her off “I don’t want to talk about that” when the latter questioned him about the two hooded men. He barely said a few words in a muffled voice about the evening.
“Me, Adama, and Paul, we all got robbed”
Like the other protagonists, he claimed that the evening with Paul Pogba was improvised, but ended up admitting that he wanted to meet him for himself “present knowledge”. Roushdane K. also admitted to having participated in the preparation meeting with the rest of the player's group of childhood friends. Later, however, he said he encountered ” by chance “ Paul Pogba and Adama C. leaving the latter's parents' house, this famous March 19 around midnight. The accused then admits to having sent the address where the group was located to his “knowledge”, whose identity he refuses to specify. The story is approximate, hesitant, full of things left unsaid.
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