Paris Saint-Germain that Moroccan defender Achraf Hakimi denies the alleged violation of a woman in 2023.
French prosecutors asked the star of Paris Saint-Germain Achraf Hakimi on Friday to face the judgment for the alleged violation of a woman in 2023, which the Moroccan international denies.
The Nanterre prosecutor's office told the AFP news agency that they had requested that the investigating judge send the position of violation of a criminal court.
“Now it is up to the investigating magistrate to make a decision within the framework of his order,” the prosecutor's office told the AFP in a statement.
Hakimi, 26, played an important role in PSG's career to his first title of the Champions League, with the full-back scoring the first game in the 5-0 defeat of Inter Milan in the final in May.
Hakimi, who helped Morocco to his historical career to the 2022 World Cup semifinals, was accused in March 2023 of rapeing a 24 -year -old woman.
Hakimi allegedly paid his accuser to travel home on February 25, 2023, in the suburb of Boulogne-Billancourt in Paris while his wife and children were on vacation.
The woman went to a police station after the meeting, claiming rape and was interrogated by the police.
Although the woman refused to make a formal accusation, prosecutors decided to present charges against the player.
She told the police at that time that she had met Hakimi in January 2023 on Instagram.
On the night in question, he said he had traveled home in a taxi paid by Hakimi. He told police that Hakimi had begun to kiss her and make unseen sexual advances, before violating her, a police source told AFP at that time.
She said she managed to free himself to send a text message to a friend who came to pick her up.
Contacted by AFP after Friday's development, Hakimi's lawyer, Fanny Colin, described the call of prosecutors for a trial as “incomprehensible and meaningless in the light of the elements of the case.”
“We, together with Achraf Hakimi, remain as quiet as at the beginning of the procedure.
“If these requests were followed, obviously we would look for all the ways of appeal,” he added.
“My client welcomes this news with great relief,” Rachel-Flore Pardo, the lawyer who represents the woman, told AFP.
Hakimi, born in Madrid, arrived through the youth system in Real Madrid before joining next to the Bundesliga Borussia Dortmund in 2018.
Then he made 73 appearances for the German club.
Inter Milan moved in 2020 and then the PSG in 2021, where it has been established as an integral part of the team.
In Qatar, Hakimi was a cornerstone of the Morocco team that became the first African or Arab nation to reach the semifinals of a World Cup.
