French police arrested Aminata Diallo of the Paris St.-Germain (PSG) women’s soccer team on Wednesday in connection with an investigation on an attack on one of her teammates. The teammate, Kheira Hamraoui, was pulled from a car last Thursday by masked men who beat her on the legs with iron bars.
PSG confirmed that Diallo was taken into police custody, but the club did not name the alleged victim.
On the night of the attack, Hamraoui had accepted a ride in Diallo’s car with two other PSG teammates after leaving a team dinner in Paris. French sports newspaper L’Équipe reported that once they had arrived at Hamraoui’s home, two men wearing balaclavas pulled Hamraoui from the car and hit her on the legs for approximately two minutes.
The two men escaped following the assault, and Hamraoui was taken to hospital. She is said to have had stitches on her leg wounds but did not suffer career-threatening injuries. However, she was not able to make her scheduled start in PSG’s Champions League matchup against Real Madrid on Tuesday.
Diallo, who plays the defensive midfielder position, like Hamraoui, instead started the match, and PSG won 4-0 for a third consecutive victory in the competition this season.
Paris Saint-Germain said in a statement that it “acknowledges that Aminata Diallo was remanded in police custody this morning by the Versailles SRPJ as part of the proceedings initiated following an assault last Thursday evening against the club’s players.”
The statement continued, “Paris Saint-Germain condemns in the strongest possible terms the violence committed. Since the evening of Thursday, Nov. 4, the club has taken all the necessary measures to guarantee the health, well-being and safety of its players.”
This is a developing story and will be updated when more information becomes available.
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