Legal cases concerning former players of the French football team have been piling up recently in France. This Tuesday, French international Wissam Ben Yedder was sentenced by French justice and found guilty of sexual assault on a 23-year-old young woman. In this case, the attacker was sentenced to two years in prison, 5,000 euros in damages to the victim, 5,000 euros for a traffic offense, registration in the file of perpetrators of sexual assault and deprivation of driving license. driving for six months with an obligation of care.
This Wednesday, November 13, a former Blues striker has just been convicted by the courts for tax and financial embezzlement dating back to the period 2016-2019. After exploding near Auxerre in the early 2000s, Djibril Cisse has played for some of the biggest clubs, from Liverpool to Lazio Rome to Olympique Marseille. With the French team, the native of Arles, in Bouches-du-Rhône, will play 41 matches for 9 goals and today remains one of the best French attackers of the last two decades. The sportsman whose son Cassius is a real hunk, already as tall as him, was tried by the Bastia criminal court.
Djibril Cissé sentenced to eight months in prison
Tried for misuse of corporate assets and omission of accounting entriesDjibril Cissé was found guilty and sentenced to eight months suspended prison sentence and 20,000 euros fine by the criminal court of the Corsican city. It is a company of one who is now a consultant and DJ, who found himself in the sights of justice. While the company was placed in compulsory liquidation in 2020, the associated current account remained in debt of 550,000 euros. “He transferred money to his bank accounts”explained the prosecutor, in comments reported by The Parisian. “He has been dealing with this matter for years. He had difficulties with the accounting firm which did not manage the matter well and did not inform him”declared the defense lawyer, Me Malcolm Mouldaïa, who pleaded for his client to be released.
In this case, Djibril Cissé, in a relationship with a beautiful dancer he met through another football player, was also prosecuted for tax fraud and laundering of tax fraud, but he was acquitted by the court. “I have always said that I had not defrauded the tax authorities and the courts proved me right”he declared to AFP. The lawyer for the former Blues striker indicated that the latter would not appeal the judgment.
