The French international of Paris SG Kheira Hamraoui was violently attacked last week, we learned from a source familiar with the matter, and her teammate in club and selection Aminata Diallo, present at the time of the facts, was placed in police custody on Wednesday, the capital’s football club confirmed.
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“Paris Saint-Germain takes note of the arrest this morning of Aminata Diallo by the SRPJ (regional judicial police service, editor’s note) of Versailles within the framework of the procedure opened following an attack last Thursday evening in against club players”, indicates the football club in a press release, confirming information revealed by the sports daily The Team.
Aminata Diallo would have been retained by the attackers
Holder Tuesday evening in the Champions League against Real Madrid (4-0), in the place usually occupied by Hamraoui who was absent for “personal reasons” according to the club, Diallo was arrested Wednesday morning in Marly-le-Roi, near of Paris, and placed in police custody by the brigade for the repression of banditry of the judicial police of Versailles (south-west of Paris). The parquet floor of Versailles was seized, according to the source close to the file. The two players, returning from a dinner organized by the club on Thursday evening, were present in the same vehicle when unknown persons committed the attack on Hamraoui, hitting her in the legs with an iron bar, as the reported the newspaper The Team.
Diallo would have been retained by the attackers, but not the victim of physical violence, a source within the club told AFP. Returning to PSG this summer, after a first stint in the capital (2012-2016), Hamraoui established herself as a starter at 31 with the reigning French champions, after winning the Women’s Champions League with FC Barcelona. last May. Recalled to the France team after two and a half years of absence, in October, the former Barça player was forced to give up due to injury. Coach Corinne Deacon then recalled Diallo (26) as reinforcements, without making her play.