Mathias Pogba, in provisional prison for ‘blackmailing’ his own brother

A judge ordered provisional prison for Mathias Pogba after being indicted for blackmailing his brother Paulworld champion with France and half of Juventus of Turin.

more involved

Four other men are also involved in this tangled and bizarre affair, who would have demanded 13 million euros from Paul in exchange for protection.

Three of them have also ended up in prison, while the fourth has not yet appeared before the judge. They have all denied the charges of kidnapping and blackmailbut they have acknowledged having pressured the footballer.

They also claim to suffer coercion, threats and violent attacks by other unidentified groups. Two of those accused today, identified as the K. brothers, were attacked and one of them was shot in the hand last August.

The Pogba case

Paul Pogba had filed complaints for extortion in both Italy and France since last March he was intimidated in an apartment in a neighborhood in the town where he grew up, in Roissy-en-Brie – the outskirts of Paris -, where he had been brought childhood friends. In the presence of two hooded men armed with rifles, they demanded 13 million from Paul.

For months, this group of relatives allegedly pressured and harassed both the French international and his entourage (his mother Yeo Moriba and his representative, the Brazilian Rafaela Pimenta).

The investigation became convinced that Mathias Pogba, Paul’s older brother, mediated in that extortion, something he has denied.

Mathias decided to go public with a strange video at the end of August, when he spoke of “shocking revelations” about his brother and about Kylian Mbappé. about andthe PSG playerMathias said that his brother had hired a sorcerer to cast an evil eye on him, an extreme denied by the Juve midfielder.

EFE

more sports news