Hicham Karmoussi, former Moroccan butler of PSG boss Nasser Al-Khelaïfi, filed a complaint in Paris on Thursday against his ex-chief in particular for "
hidden work
" and "
harassment
", AFP learned from a source familiar with the matter on Friday.
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In this simple complaint, of which AFP was aware, Mr. Karmoussi, 48, denounces concealed work, the employment of a foreigner without a work permit, moral harassment, psychological violence, threats and working conditions contrary to human dignity.
"
Hicham Karmoussi has, for years, worked without a contract or residence permit for Mr. Al-Khelaïfi and at an unsustainable pace
," his lawyer, Me Antoine Ory, told AFP.
At PSG we denounce a “blackmail” on the part of a “criminal”
For a source close to the boss of PSG, Mr. Karmoussi is a “
criminal
” who “
in recent weeks has tried to blackmail
” Mr. Al-Khelaïfi.
The latter had declared to L'Equipe in the fall: "
Justice will make its way, I don't have time to talk about these insignificant professional criminals
".
"
It's a non-event, it's part of the will, since Nasser Al-Khelaïfi is someone known, to make a buzz to try to obtain undue advantages",
also reacted Me Renaud Semerdjian and Francis Szpiner , lawyers for the president of PSG, threatening legal action in the event of "
disclosure of information on the private life
" of their client or third parties.
A former professional tennis player like Mr. Al-Khelaïfi, Mr. Karmoussi claims to have started in the mid-2000s to assist "
NAK
", then to have worked for him "
full-time
" from 2011, the year of the arrival of his boss at the head of PSG.
All without a work contract and residing at home.
His working and living conditions with Nasser Al-Khelaïfi "
deteriorated
" from 2015, he says again.
After a first serious personal event affecting "NAK", Mr. Karmoussi would have liked to resign, without succeeding.
He also and above all affirms that on October 12, 2017, during the search at the request of the Swiss judicial authorities of the headquarters of BeIN Sports in Boulogne-Billancourt in the investigation into obtaining media rights for the 2026 and 2030 Football World Cups , Mr. Al-Khelaïfi asked him to "
clean the house
" urgently in order to hide any evidence of violations.
Mr. Karmoussi would then have "
kept
" at the request of his boss several media including "
a USB key containing numerous contracts concluded
" with Jérôme Valcke, the former secretary general of Fifa, and "
burned the rest of the documents
".