Achraf Hakimi with rape
The country's investigative authorities charged Moroccan international footballer Achraf Hakimi with rape.
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Achraf hakimi with his wife |
On Thursday, prosecutors questioned the 24-year-old Paris Saint-Germain and Morocco national team player in relation to accusations from a 24-year-old woman, and prosecutors later charged him.
The Moroccan footballer was spotted at PSG training on Friday morning.
Agence France-Presse contacted the club and he did not comment.
The French prosecutor's office stated that Achraf Hakimi had been placed under police surveillance, and had been prevented from contacting the alleged plaintiff.
The Moroccan star's lawyer said, earlier, that the accusations against her client for the rape of a French woman are baseless, and that he is ready to cooperate with the judiciary.
Who is Ashraf Hakimi ?
Hakimi was born in 1998 in the Spanish capital, Madrid, to Moroccan parents, and he was discovered through the Real Madrid Academy at the age of seven, while he was playing for his local team, Colonia Ovigvi,
Hakimi also holds Spanish citizenship and is widely regarded as one of the best defenders in the world.
Street news
The French newspaper Le Parisien, which reported on the investigation, said the investigation was opened after a 24-year-old woman reported the rape to the police on Sunday.
Under French law, an indictment does not necessarily mean that a case will go to trial.
His soccer career
He started playing with “Real KS”, the reserve team for Real Madrid in 2016, then to the first team in 2017.On December 9, 2017, Ashraf Hakimi became the first Arab and African player to score for Real Madrid in Real Madrid's 5-0 victory over Seville.
He was sent on a two-year loan deal to the Borussia Dortmund team in the German League, in July 2018, and won the German Premier League Cup in 2019, before moving in June 2020 to Inter Milan in a deal worth 40 million euros, where he He won the Italian League in his first season, ending the club's 11-year absence from the league title.
His marriage
Spanish newspapers published that Heba Abouk had become at odds with Hakimi, and that she had begun the procedures for requesting a divorce from him weeks ago, that is, before the rape accusations erupted, and that the relationship between the two was not good due to the difference of views on a number of matters. The newspapers inferred that she did not accompany him recently at the FIFA Awards ceremony.