Coaster.
After setting fire to the powder by posting various videos on social networks announcing major revelations about his brother, Mathias Pogba changes gear.
And is now very small.
His lawyer, Mr. Richard Arbib released a press release this Friday morning to try to save face with regard to the turn of events and a case that has gone far beyond the framework of football.
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Given the evolution of the case and its media impact, Mathias Pogba wishes to indicate with force that he is totally foreign to any maneuver of extortion with regard to his brother, Paul Pogba
, advances the adviser .
It is clear that the difficulties experienced by the Pogba family are the result of external threats of which the Justice, now seized, will take full measure.
Mathias Pogba, who aspires more than anything to calm the situation with his brother, will henceforth reserve his word for the investigating judges in charge of this case, if necessary
.
On August 27, Mathias Pogba promised “great revelations”
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A change of tone and a posture opposite to what Mathias Pogba has revealed since his videos posted on social networks.
On August 27, the brother of the world champion announced “
great revelations ” and promised an “
explosive
” rendering
.
"Paul, you really wanted to shut me up even if it means lying and sending me to prison, I suspected it now it's proven, my version of the facts is happening and unlike you, I have enough to prove my words and your lies, he advanced in another video.
I tell you again: brother, manipulating people is not good!
It's not about money: You implicated me in spite of myself, I almost died because of you, you left me in the hole while fleeing and you want to play the innocent, when everything is said people will see that there is no more coward, more traitor and more hypocrite than you on this earth.”
A little less than two weeks later, his media stunt fell like a bellows and the image given in public turns out to be deplorable.
Not to say pathetic.
Paul Pogba MASSIMO PINCA / REUTERS
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Paul told investigators that his brother Mathias was under pressure from suspected racketeers
In the Pogba case, Paul estimated with the investigators that his brother Mathias was under pressure from the alleged racketeers, said Sunday France Info, which consulted the minutes of a second hearing, in August, of the football world champion .
The thesis of a Mathias Pogba "
under pressure
" had already been mentioned to AFP by a source close to the family.
France Info also claims that Pogba denied during this second hearing having hired a marabout to cast a spell on the star of the French team Kylian Mbappé.
According to previous information from France Info, confirmed to AFP by a source close to the case, Paul Pogba had confided to the investigators, during a first hearing, to have been trapped by childhood friends and two hooded men, armed with assault rifles, blaming him for not helping them financially.
A sum of 13 million euros would have been claimed from him, and he claims to have paid 100,000 euros.
Among the suspects, he claims to have recognized his older brother Mathias.
The Paris prosecutor's office on Friday opened a judicial investigation into the extortion denounced by the star of the French football team and Juventus Turin.