BarcelonaVersailles Regional Police arrested Paris Saint-Germain player Aminata Diallo as the alleged organizer of the serious attack suffered by her teammate Kheira Hamraoui last Thursday. Diallo would have hired two minions to assault the former Barça player when he returned home after a dinner with the squad. Hamraoui suffered serious injuries that forced her to be admitted to Poissy Hospital, where she received stitches in her hands and legs.
Sources close to Hamraoui told the French newspaper The team that at the time of the attack Diallo was at the scene: “At around 10.30pm, Hamraoui arrived near his house and, while he was still in the car driven by Aminata Diallo, he saw two strangers appear with their faces covered. with balaclavas ”. According to the French press, the two individuals violently assaulted her by hitting her legs and arms with an iron bar. The alleged ideologue of the attack, Diallo, plays in the same demarcation as Hamraoui. In fact, Diallo had played as a starter in this Tuesday’s Champions League match against Real Madrid, and had also taken Hamraoui’s place in the next call-up for the French national team. Hamraoui, 31, is one of the leading names in French football. Trained at CNFE Clairefontaine, he played for clubs such as Hénin-Beaumont, Saint-Étienne, PSG in the first leg and Olympique de Lyon before signing for Barça in 2018. With the Barça team he has won 2 Leagues, 2 Copas de la Reina, 1 Champions League, 1 Super Cup and 2 Copas Catalunya. With Lyon he also won the Champions League.
PSG wanted to give its support to the former Barça player, stating that he would work with the authorities to clarify the facts. “Paris Saint-Germain strongly condemns the acts of violence committed. Since Thursday night, November 4, the club has taken all necessary measures to ensure the health, well-being and safety of its players. Paris Saint-Germain is collaborating with the courts of Versailles to clarify the facts, “said a statement from the club, which will now wait to see how the case evolves before the authorities to make a decision on the future of Diallo. The 26-year-old midfielder played last season for Atlético de Madrid on loan. Born in the city of Grenoble, she had arrived at PSG five years ago from Guingamp, but has already made two transfers to other clubs in the last two seasons.
A very media precedent
The case is reminiscent of that of 1994 in American ice skating, in which case books, documentaries and a film have been dedicated, Jo, Tonya. Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan were the two best skaters in the United States, competing to win local tournaments and aspire to Olympic medals. In 1994 Harding tried to break the knee of his great rival. Daughter of a troubled family, with a mother capable of insulting her for being the best, Harding felt that she was always overshadowed by Nancy Kerringan, considered a role model. “I was a lot of manure and she was a princess,” said Harding, who with the help of her boyfriend, Jeff Gillooly, hired a skewer named Shane Stant to attack Kerrigan with an iron bar as she left the Detroit pavilion. where in January 1994 the national championships were held, a test where it was also decided who would go to the Lillehammer Winter Games of that same year, a few weeks later. After the attack, the title was declared vacant, but Harding thus secured his place to go to the Norwegian city. Kerrigan, who avoided a hair fracture, would recover in three weeks and thanks to an invitation was able to fly to Norway, where at one of the most watched television events in U.S. history he would win silver. Harding, pressured by the news in which it was confirmed that he had been part of the plan to attack his rival, did not move from eighth position. When she returned home, she would be charged with obstructing justice and assault, and would spend a few months in jail.
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