Paul Pogba he will never forget the evening of March 19, 2022. That day the footballer spent several hours with a childhood friend, Boubacar C., in Roissy-en-Brie (Seine-et-Marne), the city where he grew up. Around midnight, as he was preparing to return to his Parisian hotel (he was on retreat with the national team), he was led by other friends of the neighborhood, Adama C. and the brothers Roushdane and Machikour K., to an apartment in Chanteloup-en- Brie. Here the midfielder was forced to turn off the phone, which was kidnapped; after a few minutes two hooded men, wearing bulletproof vests and heavily armed, broke in. Pogba was “invited” to Roushdane C. to pay 13 million euros, of which 3 million in cash, for the protection that those two men would provide him for years. This is a step of the deposition made by the Juventus to investigators last month, reported today by The world“I was scared. They both pointed guns at me. Threatened like this, I told them I would pay but they shouted, ‘Shut up, look down.’ One of the hooded men spoke into Roushdane’s ear; when they left, Roushdane told me I had to pay them, otherwise we were all in danger. “
