PSG handball player Elohim Prandi, summoned for the preparation of the France team for Euro-2022 (January 13-30), was stabbed on New Year's Eve but is out danger, the club announced on Saturday. “
Elohim Prandi was the victim of a violent assault last night in Paris and suffered several stab wounds. The player is currently under observation in hospital and his condition does not inspire concern,
”said PSG in a press release. "
The Paris Police Prefecture is seized of the investigation,
" said the club in the capital.
The left-back with 10 selections announced himself as a basic man of the France team at the next Euro, organized from January 13 to 30 in Hungary and Slovakia. Even if he could not join the first preparation module from December 26 to 30 due to a positive test for Covid-19. He is now moving towards a package for the tournament, believes a source with knowledge of the file. The 23-year-old would add to a long list of absentees, those of Olympic champions Timothey N'Guessan, Nedim Remili and Luka Karabatic, all three injured. As for Luka's brother, Nikola Karabatic, triple Olympic champion and star of French handball, he was unavailable for this first internship due toa coronavirus infection of which "
two or three days a little difficult with a lot of symptoms
», Had described his brother.
If he did not participate in the Tokyo Olympics, Elohim Prandi had been retained in the prelist before being dismissed for the benefit of players who played in the qualifying tournament, which he had missed due to injury.
The Blues hope to imitate their predecessors of the Experts of 2008-2009 by winning the tournament following their Olympic coronation, but their preparation has been particularly disrupted for several days, due in particular to the multiplication of cases of Covid (at least eight positive cases).