Footballer Wissam Ben Yedder is once again worried by the courts. The former AS Monaco center forward appears on Tuesday October 16 before the Nice court for “drunk sexual assault”events which allegedly occurred on the night of September 6 to 7 at Cap d’Ail, on the Côte d’Azur where he resides. One more legal episode for the French international, already implicated in several cases.
Last May, Wissam Ben Yedder still proudly posed with the AS Monaco jersey for his 200th match with the principality club. Five months later, after fourteen years of a career which even took him to the French team, the former striker continues to struggle with the law.
Tuesday is for “attempted rape and sexual assault under the influence of alcohol” that he finds himself at the bar. Last Friday September 6, during one of these multiple alcoholic evenings which have become his daily life, the 34-year-old met a woman in her twenties, who agreed to get into his car. There, he placed his hand on her thigh, tried to kiss her and masturbated in front of her.
Shocked, she immediately filed a complaint and Ben Yedder, still at the wheel of his car, was arrested with difficulty during the night in Cap d’Ail, a town bordering Monaco. At the end of his police custody, he was summoned before the criminal court for “sexual assault in a state of obvious intoxication”, punishable by 10 years in prison, but also for “refusal to comply and driving under the influence of an alcoholic state.
In the meantime, the player has been subject to strict judicial control: ban on leaving the department or attending nightclubs, obligation to stay at his home from 8:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m., to report twice a week to the gendarmerie and to treat your alcohol addiction.
The prosecution had requested placement in pre-trial detention, citing risks of flight, pressure on the victim but also a repeat offense. Indeed, Wissam Ben Yedder was already under judicial supervision at the time of the events, after having paid bail of 900,000 euros: another young woman accuses him of rape during another too drunken evening during the summer of 2023. This file , where he refutes the accusations, is still under investigation.
At the same time, the player must also be tried at the end of December for psychological violence against his wife as part of difficult divorce proceedings initiated since May 2023. In addition, he was sentenced last year by the Seville court to six months suspended prison sentence and more than 130,000 euros fine for tax fraud, and proceedings also pit him against his former agent Meïssa Ndiaye.
At 34, the end of the career of the player with 19 caps and three goals for Blue, looks like a decline, while the latter, who secretly left AS Monaco this summer, no longer has any contract.
