PSG’s Achraf Hakimi investigated for alleged rape – 02/28/2023 – Sport

The prosecutor’s office in Nanterre, on the outskirts of Paris, opened this Monday (27) an investigation into alleged rape against the Moroccan PSG player Achraf Hakimi, indicated a source close to the case, confirming information provided by the newspaper Le Parisien.

The investigation was opened after a 24-year-old accused the player of having recently raped her at his home, located in the city of Boulogne-Billancourt.

According to the Spanish newspaper Marca, the athlete denies it and says that the accusations are false.

Contacted by the AFP news agencies, the Public Ministry of Nanterre declined to comment on the case, regretting “the information already published” by some media, “which make the necessary investigations difficult to clarify the truth”.

According to the same source close to the case, the alleged victim appeared last Sunday at a police station in Val-de-Marne to report the rape, but did not file a complaint.

The Créteil prosecutor’s office opened an ex-officio investigation and transferred the case to Nanterre, to which Boulogne-Billancourt belongs, the city where the attack allegedly took place.

Paris Saint-Germain had no comment on the allegation.

The player, for his part, was present at the gala ceremony for the delivery of The Best awards, organized by Fifa in Paris on Monday night.

Achraf Hakimi was born in Madrid 24 years ago to Moroccan parents. He was revealed at Real Madrid and could have been a player for the national team of Spain, but ended up deciding to compete for Morocco, a team with which he won a historic fourth place in the last World Cup in Qatar.

The son of a maid and a street vendor who settled in Spain in the 1980s, Hakimi is married to Spanish actress Hiba Abouk.

He made his debut at Real Madrid under coach Zinedine Zidane and then had spells at Borussia Dortmund and Inter Milan before signing for PSG.