In an interview, Moroccan right-back Achraf Hakimi returns, for the first time, to the rape accusations for which he was indicted in March 2023.
“I’m going to be honest about this. This is the first time I’ve spoken about it publicly with anyone. Since it happened, I haven’t said anything about it,” said Achraf Hakimi in an interview broadcast on A Anas Bukhash’s YouTube channel. In March 2023, he was indicted for rape by the Nanterre court after being placed in police custody. A 24-year-old French woman, living in Fontenay-sous-Bois (Val-de-Marne), presented herself at the end of February at the Nogent-sur-Marne police station (Val-de-Marne), where she told the police that she had was raped by Hakimi at her home in Boulogne-Billancourt. Accusations rejected by the Moroccan right side. He also denounced a racketeering attempt against him and launched proceedings against the complainant.
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According to Achraf, fame gets him into trouble. “The truth is that when you are successful and things are going well, you become an easy target for certain people,” he lamented. And it taught me that you can’t trust a lot of people around you. When we put this matter in the hands of justice, we saw that it was just a way of blackmailing me. » The Moroccan international goes to court. “They wanted to blackmail me and that’s why we filed a complaint and it’s going well. The courts handled things quite well. So, we are in a process that is going well and the justice system has managed things rather well,” he is convinced.
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