Nasser Al-Khelaïfi's lawyers have been tasked with filing a defamation suit against a Franco-Algerian lobbyist who accuses the PSG boss of being behind his kidnapping and kidnapping because he allegedly held sensitive documents, they said. announced Friday to
AFP
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After having read the declarations of Mr. Tayeb Benabderrahmane published in the press on April 28, Mr. Nasser Al-Khelaïfi instructed us to file a complaint for defamation against Mr. Tayeb Benabderrahmane", indicated to AFP
Masters
Francis
Szpiner and Renaud Semerdjian, lawyers for the boss of PSG.
Compromising documents
In articles published on Friday in the daily newspapers Liberation and Le Parisien, Tayeb Benabderrahmane, 42, goes into detail about his arrest in January 2020 in Qatar where he had settled with his family three months earlier to lobby.
He claims to have been sequestered for six months in "
a secret place of detention
" adjacent to the Ministry of the Interior and to have been questioned by Qatari officers, in particular on documents which he would hold, potentially compromising for Mr. Al-Khelaïfi.
First assigned to residence in a hotel, he was finally authorized to leave Qatar in November of the same year, after signing a confidentiality protocol in which he undertook not to disclose these documents.
It could be intimate videos of the PSG boss with his mistress and conversations contained in a phone that belonged to him with Jérôme Valcke (Fifa) and the Emir of Qatar Tamim ben Hamad Al Thani, on the organization of the Cup du Monde in Qatar or the allocation of TV rights, according to a note from the General Directorate of Internal Security (DGSI) and the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN).
Mr. Benabderrahmane, who was assisted in 2020 by Qatari and French lawyers, launched proceedings to have this confidentiality protocol canceled.
In 2022, he filed a complaint for torture, kidnapping and forcible confinement with a civil action and thus obtained the opening of a judicial investigation at the end of January.
According to a source close to the case, he was heard on March 30 by the three investigating judges of the Paris court in charge of the investigations.
In addition, Mr. Benabderrahmane and two former police officers were indicted at the end of September in a separate judicial investigation for influence peddling and corruption around PSG.
