Prosecutors want PSG and Morocco’s Achraf Hakimi to face rape trial

Paris Saint-Germain which the Moroccan defender Achraf Hakimi denies the alleged rape of a pistillate successful 2023.

French prosecutors connected Friday called for Paris Saint-Germain prima Achraf Hakimi to look proceedings for the alleged rape of a pistillate successful 2023, which the Moroccan planetary denies.

The Nanterre prosecutor’s bureau told the AFP quality bureau that they had requested that the investigating justice notation the rape complaint to a transgression court.

“It is present up to the investigating magistrate to marque a determination wrong the model of his order,” the prosecutor’s bureau told AFP successful a statement.

Hakimi, 26, played a large relation successful PSG’s tally to their archetypal Champions League title, with the full-back scoring the opener successful the 5-0 rout of Inter Milan successful the last successful May.

Hakimi, who helped Morocco to their historical tally to the semifinals of the 2022 World Cup, was charged successful March 2023 with raping a 24-year-old woman.

Hakimi allegedly paid for his accuser to question to his location connected February 25, 2023, successful the Paris suburb of Boulogne-Billancourt portion his woman and children were distant connected holiday.

The pistillate went to a constabulary presumption pursuing the encounter, alleging rape and was questioned by police.

Although the pistillate refused to marque a ceremonial accusation, prosecutors decided to property charges against the player.

She told constabulary astatine the clip that she had met Hakimi successful January 2023 connected Instagram.

On the nighttime successful question, she said she had travelled to his location successful a taxi paid for by Hakimi. She told constabulary Hakimi had started kissing her and making non-consensual intersexual advances, earlier raping her, a constabulary root told AFP astatine the time.

She said she managed to interruption escaped to substance a person who came to prime her up.

Contacted by AFP aft Friday’s development, Hakimi’s lawyer Fanny Colin described the telephone by prosecutors for a proceedings arsenic “incomprehensible and senseless successful airy of the case’s elements”.

“We, on with Achraf Hakimi, stay arsenic calm arsenic we were astatine the commencement of the proceedings.

“If these requisitions were to beryllium followed, we would evidently prosecute each avenues of appeal,” she added.

“My lawsuit welcomes this quality with immense relief,” Rachel-Flore Pardo, the lawyer representing the woman, told AFP.

Hakimi, calved successful Madrid, came done the younker strategy astatine Real Madrid earlier joining Bundesliga broadside Borussia Dortmund successful 2018.

He went connected to marque 73 appearances for the German club.

He moved to Inter Milan successful 2020 and past connected to PSG successful 2021, wherever helium has established himself arsenic an integral portion of the team.

In Qatar, Hakimi was a cornerstone of the Morocco squad that became the archetypal African oregon Arab federation to scope the semifinals of a World Cup.

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Al Jazeera and quality agencies