It’s a story that made a lot of noise on the other side of the Alps. Beginning of July, Tiemoue Bakayoko is in Milan, the city where he has been living for a year now. AC Milan player, he has just won the championship alongside Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Olivier Giroud. After several years in France and England, the 27-year-old ended up finding his happiness in Italy, but an incident that occurred in early July and the video of which was posted online on Monday July 18, 2022 made the rounds on social networks. On the images, we can see the Italian police arresting the French international in the middle of traffic.
Tiémoué Bakayoko is pinned against the police car and insistently patted by a policeman before his colleague comes to warn him that he is an AC Milan player. A big bad buzz for the Italian police, who tried to justify themselves by indicating that a shooting was taking place at the same time near the place of the arrest. “It should be noted that this arrest took place in an operational context which justified the adoption of the highest security measures”police said in a statement.
I found myself with the gun a meter from me, passenger window side
Visibly shaken by this brutal intervention, Tiémoué Bakayoko finally spoke on the subject via his Instagram account. The former teammate of Kylian Mbappé in Monaco wanted to put things in context. “In the video that was posted on social media, you don’t see everything. It’s the quietest part of everything that could have happened. I found myself with the gun a meter from me, side passenger window. They clearly put our lives at risk.”reveals the footballer.