Believing to be affected by a “surprising media cabal” since her attack, Kheira Hamraoui displayed her “confidence” in justice “so that the truth comes to light and that (her) honor is washed”, Saturday, the day after the setting in examination of Aminata Diallo, ex-teammate at Paris SG. “Today, I trust justice to bring out the truth and that my honor be washed. I can’t wait for my name to be associated again only with the sports pages and leave the legal columns,” wrote the international community. 32-year-old Frenchwoman, under contract until 2023 at PSG but currently kept away from the group.
An aggression that “haunts her night and day”
The message posted on Saturday on Twitter is accompanied by photos showing the injuries to the hands and legs resulting from her attack with an iron bar, on the evening of November 4, an attack in which she “thought to die” and which “haunts her nights and days”. Arrested, her teammate and competitor at the time Aminata Diallo, who witnessed the scene, had been released after forty hours in police custody. She was finally indicted on Friday for “aggravated violence” and “criminal association”, then placed in pre-trial detention.
After this “oh so traumatic experience”, “I was the victim of a surprising media cabal with the aim of tarnishing my image and my private life”, affirms Hamraoui, in reference to press articles linking the aggression to many alleged intimate relationships with married men. The French international (39 selections) recalls having been “unfairly insulted on the pitch, harassed on social networks and threatened with death” and says she is only guilty, by her silence, “of having allowed a media buzz to take hold of ‘unheard of violence that destroyed us, my loved ones and me.
“If there is one thing that has not changed since this tragedy, it is my ambition for me and my country”
Hamraoui was suspected by some PSG players of having directed investigators towards Diallo, whom they considered innocent, which led to strong tensions in the team. The club has decided to keep Hamraoui, under contract until June 2023, out of the professional group for the current season. “I aspire today to rediscover the pleasure of the green rectangle. And to continue to win. Because if there is one thing that has not changed since this tragedy, it is my ambition for me and my country. “, she concludes.
— Kheira Hamraoui (@kheirahamraoui) September 17, 2022