The release under judicial supervision of Boubacar Camara, a close friend of Paul Pogba indicted in the investigation into extortion targeting the footballer, was confirmed by the Paris Court of Appeal on Monday, AFP learned from sources. close to the file and judicial.
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The prosecution had appealed the release decision taken at the end of 2022 by a Parisian investigating judge after a request for release filed by the lawyer for Boubacar Camara, childhood friend of Paul Pogba, who had been suspended. under examination and imprisoned in September.
During a Monday hearing behind closed doors of the investigating chamber of the Paris Court of Appeal, the general prosecutor's office requested the return to detention of Mr. Camara, dressed in a white shirt, a jacket dark and black pants.
But the court pronounced the release under judicial supervision of the person concerned, who came with two of his relatives.
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The detention of Mr. Camara was no longer justified in this case, notwithstanding the notoriety of the alleged victim
" welcomed his lawyer, Mr. Saïd Harir, according to whom this release under judicial supervision "
is the culmination of 'substantive work (...) even though the prosecution has not changed its position demanding that our client be, at all costs, kept in detention
'.
On December 23, the footballer's brother, Mathias Pogba, indicted in this investigation for extortion in an organized gang and participation in a criminal association, had already been released, as well as another person in early December.
In total, five people are indicted to date in this case.
Mathias Pogba himself had revealed in an enigmatic video broadcast on August 27 the extortion of which his younger brother, who plays at Juventus Turin (Italy), claims to be the victim.
The latter had denounced in a complaint filed with the Turin public prosecutor's office in July extortion amounting to 13 million euros between March and July 2022.
A preliminary investigation had been opened by the Paris prosecutor's office, then a judicial investigation on September 2 for, in particular, extortion with a weapon, kidnapping or kidnapping in an organized gang and participation in a criminal association.
Paul Pogba told French investigators that he was trapped by childhood friends and two hooded men, armed with assault rifles, who blamed him for not having helped them financially.
Of the 13 million euros claimed, he says he paid 100,000 euros.
Boubacar Camara, who was also very close to the footballer's mother, Yeo Moriba, is notably suspected of having been given these 100,000 euros, which he disputes.
Mathias Pogba, who denies any participation in the facts, is also suspected of having pressured his brother's agent, lawyer Rafaela Pimenta, to get Paul Pogba to pay the sum claimed by his masters singers.