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The striker spoke about a trauma experienced in 2022. He then suffered a broken jaw while trying to defend himself from robbers.
If Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang’s Barcelona break started well, it ended with a terrible mishap. On August 28, 2022, a few days before leaving Catalonia to join Chelsea, the Gabonese international was the victim of an armed robbery at his home, while his wife and children were there.
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In the columns of the English media The Athletic, the former Marseillais recounts this horrible evening: “My eldest son came running and said to me: ‘Dad, there are guys in the house’”. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang then asks him to hide but he is not at the end of his surprises.
“They came from outside, where my wife was smoking with my cousin and her boyfriend,” he continues. “They took him (the cousin’s boyfriend, Editor’s note.) and entered the house. My wife was screaming. They had a gun.”
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A bottle as your only defense
After asking other members of his family to take shelter, the attacker grabbed a bottle to defend himself from the attackers. It’s a waste of time. Using a brass knuckles, a thug strikes him a blow which breaks his jaw. Worse, one of the individuals holds his wife and children hostage.
“At that moment, I couldn’t do anything,” the footballer recalls. “If you do something wrong, something can happen to them. If I was alone, no problem. I can deal with it, because mentally, I was prepared for everything in life thanks to my parents. But when you have a wife and children, it’s different.”
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Ultimately, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang was forced to obey the attackers and let them leave with jewelry, watches and other valuables. The greatest damage is psychological, particularly on children, who lived in “fear” after these events. A wound not yet healed in the family.
