Wednesday November 10, 2021
Assault commissioned?
Professional arrested after attacking fellow player
After a club dinner, the PSG soccer players Aminata Diallo and Kheira Hamraoui go home together. Suddenly, strangers drag Hamraoui out of the car and hit her with an iron bar. Diallo is now arrested – she is said to have commissioned the attack.
The French national soccer player Aminata Diallo has been taken into custody in connection with a violent attack on a teammate. Corresponding media reports confirmed Diallo’s club, the French champions Paris St. Germain. PSG, where German national player Sara Däbritz is under contract, did not name the victim. The club strongly condemned the violence.
According to media reports and the AFP news agency, it is Kheira Hamraoui, who is also active in the French selection. According to the specialist newspaper “L’Equipe”, the 31-year-old is said to have driven home with Diallo after a club dinner last Thursday when strangers dragged her out of the car, attacked her with an iron bar and hit her on the legs. Diallo is said to have sat as a passenger in the car.
The case brings back memories of one of the most spectacular sports scandals: In 1994, the American figure skater Nancy Kerrigan was injured in the knee by an assassin with an iron bar. The client was Jeff Gillooly, the husband of Kerrigan’s fiercest rival Tonya Harding at the time.
It has not yet been clarified whether Diallo was behind the attack on Hamraoui. There is no charge. PSG condemned the attack “strongly” and otherwise referred to the ongoing investigations in which the club supported the authorities. Further measures would be considered, it said. “L’Equipe” reported that Diallo had ordered an attack on their teammate Hamraoui.
Midfielder Hamraoui was absent from the Champions League group game against Real Madrid (4-0) on Tuesday evening – according to Paris “for personal reasons”. Diallo, on the other hand, was in the starting line-up like Däbritz.