We found Pogba's marabout: "Paul never asked me to cast a spell on Kylian!"

It is “the first and the last time” that he speaks to a journalist, he assures us after an hour and a half of discussion in the lobby of his building, in the Paris region.

Since the Pogba affair broke out at the end of August, Birame D. has taken refuge in silence, insensitive to the distant echoes of a possible "maraboutage" by Kylian Mbappé that he would have carried out at the request of Paul Pogba.

But “some people have gone too far in lying,” Birame now believes.

This 39-year-old father, born in Senegal and arrived in France as an adult, thinks of one man in particular: Mamadou M., known as Mam's, Paul Pogba's closest ex-friend, today indicted for "extortion in an organized gang with a weapon".

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