Hayet Abidal, the wife of Eric Abidal cited in the investigation into the assault on PSG footballer Kheira Hamraoui, asked Tuesday to be heard by investigators “in order to stop the rumor”, because she did not “Nothing to do with these facts”, according to his lawyer.
“As early as Monday morning, she asked the Versailles prosecutor’s office, through her counsel, to be questioned in order to put an end to the rumor,” wrote her lawyer, Me Nicolas Cellupica, in a press release sent Tuesday evening to the AFP. “Hayet Abidal has nothing to do with these facts,” he insisted.
His client “will not comment on this case and wishes to be heard as quickly as possible by the investigators or the magistrate in charge of the case”, he added. The chip used in the phone of Kheira Hamraoui, violently attacked on November 4 near Paris, was in the name of ex-international Eric Abidal. Kheira Hamraoui had explained to investigators that this chip was “in the name of her ex”, according to a source familiar with the matter.
The player played for FC Barcelona at a time when Eric Abidal was sporting director of the Catalan club. The hypothesis of a revenge in love with the entourage of Mr. Abidal is “one track considered among others,” the Versailles prosecutor told AFP on Monday, saying that “nothing is founded” but no ‘However, not excluding the possibility that the wife of Mr. Abidal, Hayet Abidal, is heard like him.
A few hours earlier, Tuesday, Kheira Hamraoui had called, by way of a press release, for respect for his private life and wished that the investigators could “carry out their investigations calmly”. The investigation was entrusted Monday to an examining magistrate.
