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Al Bawaba
02-08-2025
- Sport
- Al Bawaba
Achraf Hakimi faces Rape trial amid alleged extortion plot and explosive text message leak
Published August 2nd, 2025 - 03:19 GMT ALBAWABA - Achraf Hakimi was referred to a criminal court on charges of raping a young woman. On Friday, August 1, 2025, the Nanterre Public Prosecutor's Office asked that Achraf Hakimi be taken to a criminal court on charges that he raped a young woman at his home in Paris in February 2023. The move was a shocking new development. A report from the public prosecutor to Agence France-Presse says that the player rejects this charge. Hakimi's lawyer, Fanny Colin, said that the prosecutor's requests are "incomprehensible and illogical given the evidence in the case." "Achraf and I are still as calm as we were when the proceedings began," she said. If these requests go through, we will definitely use all court options to make our case heard. ATLANTA, GEORGIA - JULY 05: Achraf Hakimi (Photo by Kevin C. Cox / Getty Images via AFP) AFP quoted the young woman's lawyer, Rachelle-Fleur Bardot, as saying, "My client received this news with great relief." There is no evidence in this case of an attempt to extort money. She said, "We will not tolerate any smear campaign, as is unfortunately the case all too often for women who show courage in reporting the rape they have suffered." Now that the new season has begun, Hakimi has been on holiday and hasn't said anything about the case. A statement from Kylian Mbappé in defense of Hakimi said, "Hakimi respects women, and I have never seen him behave in an inappropriate manner." — Le Parisien (@le_Parisien) August 1, 2025 Achraf Hakimi: "Someone tried to intimidate me into paying money." It is important to note that Achraf Hakimi was charged with rape and put under court supervision in March 2023 after a young woman said he raped her at his home in Boulogne-Billancourt (Hauts-de-Seine). The player for Paris Saint-Germain has rejected the claim. He strongly rejected all the charges at the time, seeing what happened as a clear attempt to blackmail him. According to an interview he gave in January 2025, "The truth is that when you succeed, you become an easy target... and I was the victim of an extortion attempt." The young woman reported a rape to the Val-de-Marne police station at the end of February 2023. However, she did not file an official complaint. Police said at the time that she met Hakimi on Instagram in January 2023 and was picked up by a private car with a driver that the player had asked for. She then proceeded to his house. The same person also said that the complainant said Hakimi kissed her without her permission before raping her. She also said she was able to get him to leave by texting her friend and having them come pick her up in person. Was there a plot against Hakimi? According to L'Équipe, strange text messages were found on the phone. Nadia's friend used Emily's phone number and got messages saying things like "Come in like a femme fatale" and "We'll tie him up." These messages said that a group of women planned to charm and maybe rob the football player. Emily texted the player right before they met and said, "He's my type." When Nadia replied, she laughed and wrote, "Oh my God, you're dirty." To get rid of the other messages, Nadia asked Emily which ones she had sent to the cops as the situation got worse. © 2000 - 2025 Al Bawaba (
Local France
02-08-2025
- Sport
- Local France
Prosecutors call for PSG's Achraf Hakimi to face rape trial
The Nanterre prosecutor's office told AFP that they had requested that the investigating judge refer the rape charge to a criminal court. "It is now up to the investigating magistrate to make a decision within the framework of his order," the prosecutor's office told AFP in a statement. Hakimi, 26, played a major role in PSG's run to their first Champions League title, the full-back scoring the opener in the 5-0 rout of Inter Milan in the final in May. Hakimi, who helped Morocco to their historic progress to the semi-finals of the 2022 World Cup, was charged in March, 2023 with raping a 24-year-old woman. Hakimi allegedly paid for his accuser to travel to his home on February 25, 2023, in the Paris suburb of Boulogne-Billancourt while his wife and children were away on holiday. The woman went to a police station following the encounter alleging rape and was questioned by police. Although the woman refused to make a formal accusation, prosecutors decided to press charges against the player. She told police at the time that she had met Hakimi in January 2023 on Instagram. On the night in question she said she had travelled to his house in a taxi paid for by Hakimi. She told police Hakimi had started kissing her and making non-consensual sexual advances, before raping her, a police source told AFP at the time. She said she managed to break free to text a friend who came to pick her up. Advertisement 'Attempted extortion' Contacted by AFP after Friday's development Hakimi's lawyer Fanny Colin described the call by prosecutors for a trial as "incomprehensible and senseless in light of the case's elements". "We, along with Achraf Hakimi, remain as calm as we were at the start of the proceedings. "If these requisitions were to be followed, we would obviously pursue all avenues of appeal," she continued. According to Colin, her client had "been the target of an attempted extortion". "Nothing in this case suggests an attempted extortion," Rachel-Flore Pardo, the lawyer representing the woman, said. "My client welcomes this news with immense relief," she told AFP. "We will not tolerate any smear or destabilisation campaign, as is unfortunately still too often the case for women who have the courage to report the rape of which they are victims," she added. The son of a cleaning lady and a street vendor, both Moroccans who have lived in Spain since the 1980s, Hakimi was born in Getafe, a southern suburb of Madrid. Hakimi came through the youth system at Real Madrid before joining Bundesliga side Borussia Dortmund in 2018. He went on to make 73 appearances for the German club. He moved to Inter Milan in 2020 and then on to PSG in 2021 where he has established himself 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 semi-finals of a World Cup.
LeMonde
01-08-2025
- Sport
- LeMonde
French prosecutors seek trial for PSG's Achraf Hakimi over rape charge
French prosecutors on Friday, August 1, called for Paris Saint-Germain star Achraf Hakimi to face trial for the alleged rape of a woman in 2023, which the Moroccan international denies. The Nanterre prosecutor's office told Agence France-Presse (AFP) that they had requested that the investigating judge refer the rape charge to a criminal court. "It is now up to the investigating magistrate to make a decision within the framework of his order," the prosecutor's office told AFP in a statement. Hakimi, 26, played a major role in PSG's run to their first Champions League title, the full-back scoring the opener in the 5-0 rout of Inter Milan in the final in May. Hakimi, who helped Morocco to their historic run to the semi-finals of the 2022 World Cup, was charged in March 2023 with raping a 24-year-old woman. Hakimi allegedly paid for his accuser to travel to his home on February 25, 2023, in the Paris suburb of Boulogne-Billancourt while his wife and children were away on holiday. On the night in question she said she had traveled to his house in d by police. Although the woman refused to make a formal accusation, prosecutors decided to press charges against the player. She told police at the time that she had met Hakimi in January 2023 on Instagram. Contacted by AFP after Friday's development, Hakimi's lawyer Fanny Colin described the night in question she said she had travelled to his house in a taxi paid for by Hakimi. She told police Hakimi had started kissing her and making non consensual sexual advances, before raping her, a police source told AFP at the time. She said she managed to break free to text a friend who came to pick her up. Contacted by AFP after Friday's development Hakimi's lawyer Fanny Colin described the call by prosecutors for a trial as "incomprehensible and senseless in light of the case's elements". "If these requisitions were to be followed, we would obviously pursue all avenues of appeal," she added. "My client welcomes this news with immense relief," Rachel-Flore Pardo, the lawyer representing the woman, told AFP.
