French justice charges former PSG player Aminata Diallo with orchestrating a beating against her teammate Kheira Hamraoui

Aminata Diallo, a former PSG player, was arrested this Friday for orchestrating an attack against her former teammate, Kheira Hamraoui, on the night of November 4, 2021. That day, two men took Hamraoui out of the car in which the two were soccer players and attacked her with an iron bar on her legs and hands.

This week the events of the case have rushed, after four suspects of having participated directly in the aggression were arrested on Wednesday and Thursday.

Diallo has been identified as the organizer of the attack by the four men involved, according to the daily

The soccer player, released provisionally this Saturday 40 hours after her arrest, has been accused of "aggravated violence" and "association of malefactors" according to the Court of Versailles, responsible for the case.

The former PSG would have planned it to be able to take Hamraoui's place in the team and in the French team, since both play in the same position.

A year ago Daillo was already arrested as a suspect in the assault, but she was released after questioning.

This Saturday, Hamraoui has broken his silence about the events of that night 10 months later with a letter published on his social networks.

The soccer player, after learning of Hamraoui's arrest, has told how the months after the attack have been that changed her "personal and professional" life, her life as a soccer player and as a woman.

"That night I thought I was going to die when two hooded men forced me out of my car," the French soccer player said of the events.

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– Kheira Hamraoui (@kheirahamraoui) September 17, 2022

Hamraoui's fateful night began with a dinner with the PSG team and coaching staff in a Paris restaurant.

At the end of dinner, the soccer player got into the car of his partner Amina Diallo to go home, to which he did not arrive.

On the way, two hooded men forced her out of the car and beat her legs and hands with an iron bar.

After the attack, Hamraoui went to the Poissy clinic, on the outskirts of Paris, to have her injuries treated.

The soccer player has shared images of her blows in the same publication in which she tells the hell she has lived since the attack.

The former Barcelona player, who signed for PSG in July 2021, explains in her letter that the aggressors' goal was simple: "Eliminate my workplace with extreme violence by breaking my legs and end my career."

Hamraoui is not alone in the "traumatic and unfair" of her experience and she has denounced having been the victim of a "media campaign" since the attack to make her private life public.

“I am the victim.

Clearly I am not guilty, but I have kept quiet out of modesty.

Having allowed a media murmur of violence to settle has destroyed me and those around me”, the footballer expressed in the letter.

The rivalry between the alleged aggressor and the victim, which is also highlighted by the Court of Versailles, was pointed out from the beginning.

"One of the attackers hit Kheira at her legs, as if he wanted to prevent her from exercising her profession for a while," said a PSG worker almost a year ago.

Since Hamraoui signed for the team, Diallo had been relegated to the background in the

as both occupy the same position in midfield.

The same thing happened in the French team.

Hamraoui had been part of several calls in which Diallo had not entered, but when the first could not go with the national team after the attack, the second was her substitute.

In his letter on social networks, Hamraoui does not accuse anyone of the attack, although he trusts "justice to clarify the facts and clean" his honor.

The soccer player insists that "this period" has been one of the most difficult in her life "as a woman and as an athlete", since she has been "unfairly insulted on the pitch, harassed on social networks and threatened with death".

The player, who has been away from the team for more than a month, has also had problems with her teammates who accuse her of pointing out Diallo as the culprit of the attack.

The PSG player also refers to the harassment she received due to the relationship she had with the soccer player Éric Abidal when they both met in Barcelona while he was married.

This relationship was made public after the attack and both the former soccer player and his wife had to testify about the case.

Now Hamraoui wants this nightmare to end so she can refocus on what has always been her career goal: “Becoming a professional player who gives her best on the pitch with the respect of the fans”.

Kheira Hamraoui's letter

I will never forget the night of November 4, 2021, it has tormented me nights and days.

That dark night has made me change my personal and professional life, my life as a woman and as a footballer.

Tonight I thought I was going to die when two hooded men forced me out of my car.

They hit me with an iron bar, aiming especially at the lower part of my body.

That night, his goal was simple: to eliminate with extreme violence my means of work by breaking my legs and end my career.

After this traumatic and unfair experience, I have been the victim of a surprising media campaign with the aim of making my private life public.

The purpose was to distance public opinion from the truth: I am the victim.

Clearly I am not guilty, but I have kept quiet out of modesty.

Having allowed a media murmur of violence to settle has destroyed me and my entourage.

Months after the attack, I have been unfairly insulted on the pitch, harassed on social media and threatened with death.

However, I have clung with all my strength to my passion and to being professional.

This period has been one of the most difficult in my life as a woman and as an athlete.

Especially when it comes to the French team.

That story, so important to me, is now written without me.

I trust in justice to clarify the truth and cleanse my honor.

I am impatient for my name to be associated again only with sports pages and this outside the judicial rubrics.

I always dreamed of being a professional player who gave her best on the pitch, respected by the fans and by her teammates.

I hope with all my heart that I can continue to fulfill my childhood dream for a long time.

What I have experienced these months is a great life lesson.

Now I only aspire to rediscover the pleasure of playing and continue winning.

There is something that has not changed after this drama: The ambition I feel for my goals and those of my country.

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