Media365 editorial team, published on Thursday December 19, 2024 at 3:34 p.m.
The deliberations of the trial of the “Pogba affair” saw Mathias Pogba receive a three-year prison sentence, one of which, according to RMC Sport and L’Equipe, was detention to be carried out at home under electronic surveillance.
It was this Thursday, December 19, that the deliberations of the trial of the “Pogba affair” took place at the Paris Court. Two weeks after its end and requisitions from the prosecution which had been described as “above ground“and of”disproportionate” by Mbeko Tabula, Mathias Pogba’s lawyer, these were therefore well followed. Paul Pogba’s older brother was thus sentenced to three years in prison, two of which were suspended, his detention before her to be carried out at home under electronic surveillance.
If the five other defendants received heavier sentences (Roushdane K., eight years, Adama C., five years, Mamadou M., five years including one suspended sentence, Boubacar C., four years including two suspended sentences, Machikour K ., four years including three suspended), Mathias Pogba was well “found guilty of organized extortion and attempted extortion.” More than a year and a half ago, on the night of March 19 to 20, 2022, Paul Pogba was the victim of a robbery in an apartment in Montévrain (Seine-et-Marne), by two hooded men and armed, with the aim of extorting 13 million euros from him Three other men had participated in the kidnapping, Mathias Pogba, absent on D-day, being therefore incriminated for attempt. extortion only.
“We will appeal”
“This is an extremely harsh decision which does not meet our expectations. I will speak with Mathias (Pogba), but I think we will appealannounced Mbeko Tabula at the end of the hearing, in comments reported by RMC Sport. From the start he proclaimed his innocence. He says he was manipulated, coerced, pressured. That he would never have acted negatively towards his brother. We didn’t take into consideration his vulnerability, the fact that he was forced to do things beyond his will. We deny him this reality, which is why we condemn him.”
Maître Daphné Pugliesi, for her part, lawyer for Roushdane K., argued that the weight of the name of Paul Pogba, absent from the trial two weeks ago, had weighed heavily in the decision. “There were two prosecutors who were there, normally there is only one in this type of case, she said. This issue was treated with some attention since there was media coverage. So I think the penalties are probably a little harsher because of Paul Pogba’s notoriety.”
