Mathias absent at the opening of the trial even though he must be heard

Mathias Pogba is not here!

The hearing resumes but Mathias Pogba is not there. The president of the court regrets her absence, for which “she doesn’t really have an explanation”.

The hearing will resume late!

The different protagonists begin to arrive in the room. The hearing, which was to resume at 9:30 a.m., will begin late. Difficult to say how much at the moment.

Towards an extension of the trial?

This Tuesday, December 3 should mark the end of the trial, but it has fallen behind schedule. Some lawyers speak of an “under-calibration” of the hearing in the court schedule. The president had already warned that an additional half-day would be necessary to complete this trial.

Mathias Pogba, the “puppet” of the Pogba affair?

Placed in pre-trial detention, Mathias Pogba spent three and a half months in prison before being released under judicial supervision at the end of December 2022. A few months ago, before the investigating judge, he considered that he had only been a “puppet”. Very moved, he also said he hoped to see his brother again quickly. “I hope that our union will be reconsolidated”he declared.

What happened on March 19, 2022?

Two days before joining Clairefontaine and the French football team, Paul Pogba was kidnapped by two armed men demanding the sum of 13 million euros from him, on March 19, 2022. Five men suspected by the courts of having organized the meeting in the Parisian suburbs and having trapped the 2018 world champion appear before the Paris criminal court.

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Pogba trial. Extortion, threats with weapons… What happened on March 19, 2022?

What does the justice system accuse Mathias Pogba of?

It is Paul Pogba’s older brother who will be heard this morning. The eldest sibling appears for “attempted extortion” et “criminal association”. He was also the author of pressure on his little brother, with the publication of a lunar video, on August 27, 2022, promising to “great revelations” on Paul as well as on Kylian Mbappé. The details of the accusations can be discovered in this article.

What to remember from the first days?

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Hello everyone and welcome to this live commentary of the Pogba trial from the courtroom of the Paris criminal court. Justice is hearing Mathias, brother of the French world champion, this morning from 9:30 a.m.