The address of the president of Paris Saint Germain (PSG), Nasser Al-Khelaifi, was the subject of a judicial search this Wednesday in the framework of the investigation opened on the basis of a complaint from a lobbyist who considers him responsible for his detention for several months in Qatar.
The information site Mediapart was the one that revealed this record, which occurred in the afternoon when Al Khelaïfi was scheduled to appear before the press to present the new PSG coach, the Spanish Luis Enrique, who had to be delayed for several hours. .
In fact, the investigators and the examining magistrate went to wait for the president of the club in the French capital when he arrived by plane to obtain his approval for this procedure.
A spokesman for him quoted by France Info stressed that the Qatari soccer leader cooperated with the authorities “as it has been since day one” and insisted that “Nasser Al Khelaïfi is a victim in this matter.”
At the origin of everything is the complaint by Tayeb Benabderrahmane, a Franco-Algerian businessman who settled in Doha in June 2019 hired by the Qatari Human Rights Committee as a consultant.
He claims that the following year he was held hostage for six months in a secret prison, where he was interrogated about allegedly compromising documents for the head of PSG.
Finally he was authorized to leave the country end of 2020, but only after signing a protocol that forced him to keep what happened a secret and not to divulge those documents.
Last week, the French investigating judge led the search of the offices of the former Minister of Justice and mayoress of the Paris 7th arrondissementthe conservative Rachida Dati, as well as those of the lawyers Olivier Pardo and Francis Szpiner for their possible involvement in the plot.
According to Benabderrahmane, the former minister acted as an intermediary for him to sign that document under pressure. confidentiality agreement favorable to the interests of Qatar.
Al Khelaïfi’s lawyers had announced in April that they intended to formalize a complaint for defamation against the lobbyist.
2023-07-06 08:14:40
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