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Pogba case: Mathias, Paul's brother, released from prison

2022-12-23T10:13:06.433Z


PARISIAN INFO. Paul Pogba's older brother, in pre-trial detention since September 17 in the extortion case including the footballer


The second will have been good.

According to our information, footballer Mathias Pogba, who had been refused on September 29, has just had his new request for release accepted by the investigating judges in charge of the case of extortion in an organized gang in which he had been behind bars since 17 September.

The older brother of the Blues midfielder and 2018 world champion Paul Pogba – the main victim of this sensitive file – was therefore able to leave this Friday, December 23, the Villepinte remand center (Seine-Saint-Denis).

In accordance with what his lawyer, Me Yassine Bouzrou, had requested, the 32-year-old Franco Guinean was placed under judicial control, in particular for a ban on contacting his mother and his brother Paul as well as the protagonists of the case.

He is not allowed to leave the territory or use social networks.

Asked this Friday morning, Me Bouzrou did not wish to comment.

In this case, Mathias Pobga and four other people - still detained - are suspected of having put pressure on Paul Pogba in order to extract a large sum of money from him.

The Juventus player was even kidnapped on the night of March 19 to 20, 2022, trapped according to his account by childhood friends and two hooded men, armed with assault rifles, who then reproached him for not have helped financially.

He admitted to being at the initiative of the video

Mathias is not involved in these facts, which are as serious as they are traumatic for his brother Paul, but on the other hand he admitted to the investigators that he was behind the video which revealed this affair and made the world of football tremble two months before the World Cup in Qatar.

Justice considers that the broadcast of this video was a means of pressure to push his brother to pay.

In September, Mathias Pogba voluntarily presented himself to the police to be heard, as his lawyer points out in his December 15 release request.

After his police custody and his interrogation of first appearance before the judges, the older brother of the international midfielder was indicted for "extortion in an organized gang" and "criminal association" then placed under judicial supervision.

The prosecution immediately seized the judge of freedoms and detention (JLD), who sent the defendant to pre-trial detention.

“Mathias Pogba, who denies having participated in the facts, is particularly shocked by this deprivation of liberty”, reports Me Yassine Bouzrou in his request for release (DML).

The criminal lawyer also notes that since September 17, the other indicted have been questioned and that their statements are not – in his eyes – contradictory with those of his client.

Me Bouzrou also notes that Paul Pogba, heard as a civil party, “at no time implicated Mathias Pogba in the facts of which he was the victim”.

“No risk of pressure on witnesses and victims”

Highlighting the principle of the presumption of innocence and the exceptional nature of detention, Yassine Bouzrou recalls that alternative security measures to prison are planned, with a sanction procedure in the event of violation of such control. judicial.

Further, the lawyer considers that there is no risk of loss of evidence and material clues, nor of risk of fraudulent consultation with the other indicted, his client also not knowing the other people potentially involved in this case but not yet caught up with justice.

In line with this demonstration, Me Bouzrou considers that releasing his client does not create a risk of pressure on witnesses and victims, recalling that neither Paul Pogba nor the mother of the two brothers have implicated his client.

Likewise, he assures that there is no danger of absconding or of wanting to evade justice.

“This procedure has important family and personal consequences for him.

He obviously wants to participate in the manifestation of the truth, "writes Mathias Pogba's lawyer, indicating that he can reside - alone - in a family property in Seine-et-Marne, and refrain from all contact with Paul. and his other relatives.

Finally, Me Bouzrou insists on Mathias Pogba's wish to keep "at a distance from this situation", specifying that Paul's brother was informed by the procedure that relatives of theirs could be involved in the armed extortion that occurred. in March 2002. All of these arguments - or some of them - convinced the judges to release Mathias Pogba after 89 days in detention.

And this time, the striker, who has played in more than twelve clubs in Europe, held his own, he who had torpedoed the previous DML by appearing on September 23 on new videos published in particular on his Twitter account while he was in the cell.

He continued his accusations there against the star of Juventus of Turin.

Pressure, in the eyes of the judges, thus justifying his continued detention.

Source: leparis

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