A poignant testimony. In an interview with Le Parisien, Hayet Abidal returned to the case of Kheira Hamraoui’s assault, which occurred at least in November, but also to the nature of his links with the PSG player, who allegedly had an extra- marriage with her husband Eric Abidal.
The two young women met in Barcelona, when the tricolor international signed in 2018 in the Catalan club, where the former defender was sporting director. And they quickly hit it off. “She came from OL. My husband was then sporting director of Barça. The fact that she comes from Lyon, like us, brought us closer and my husband had asked me to introduce her to Barcelona,” said Hayet Abibal on the daily website.
“We became friends, she knew my children. I helped her to integrate as I do with many players who settle here,” she added. But their relationship deteriorated when she discovered that Kheira Hamraoui “had strange and sometimes inappropriate behavior” with her husband, but also “other men”
Faced with this behavior, she decided to distance herself from the player. “I then cut ties, as everyone does in these kinds of stories, to protect his family. I never heard from her again…until this story. Looking back, I have the impression that the more I rubbed shoulders with her, the more my couple sank, as if she had added fuel to the fire, ”she said.
“Kheira Hamraoui was not the first”
And it is not the voice recordings, posted this weekend on social networks, which will fix the situation. In these famous recordings, Kheira Hamraoui openly mocks Eric Abidal and his companion, whom she describes as an “old girl”. “I am devastated. I haven’t slept since I heard that. This girl came to my house, I opened the doors of my house to her… I came to support her during her matches in Barcelona… My children still remember her. And that’s how she talks about me and my family. This girl is diabolical,” lamented Hayet Abibal.
And the young woman, who filed for divorce shortly after the affair broke out, also charged her husband, saying that “Kheira Hamraoui was not the first”. “Some people blamed me for not having forgiven my husband and for asking for a divorce following this story. What they don’t know is that our marriage has gone through a lot of gray areas that I don’t prefer to talk about,” she said, explaining that the former defender had never asked her. forgiveness, nor come to his defence.
A lingering investigation
“In no case Eric asked me for forgiveness face-to-face, as he never defended me from the accusations or rumors that weighed on me, regretted Hayet Abidal. I want him terribly. Eric just posted an apology post on Instagram, deleted 48 hours later. The shortest pardon in history… Infidelity is a conscious act that a man or a woman can avoid. My husband did not avoid it.
While she was heard by the investigators of the PJ of Versailles, following the violent attack suffered by the midfielder of the capital club, beaten with an iron bar by two hooded individuals, she also spoke on the investigation which seems to be slipping. “The investigation is not progressing as quickly as I had hoped, because they have to cross-check a huge amount of contradictory information,” she confided. Before putting a layer on Kheira Hamraoui.
“If you get mugged and you’re told ‘so that’s how we sleep with married men’, you know who’s mad at you. You name the suspect. There, how is it that the tracks go in all directions? It’s good that Kheira Hamraoui has a lot of people who are angry with her… or that she doesn’t tell the whole truth, she underlined. In any case, she threw a lot of names at the investigators without worrying about the damage that it would cause. And Hayet Abidal is one of the main victims.