Former French soccer player Wissam Ben Yedder escapes pre-trial detention – Libération

2024-09-18 10:30:31

Sexual violencedossier

This Wednesday, September 18, the courts rejected the request for pre-trial custody of the 34-year-old attacker, who was accused of sexual assault and had already been accused of rape in another case. Pending his sentencing on October 15, the person concerned is under judicial supervision.

Wissam Ben Yedder will not sleep in prison, or at least not immediately. The investigative chamber of the Aix-en-Provence Court of Appeal rejected this Thursday, September 18, the request for the detention of the former footballer of the French football team, carried out by the public prosecutor’s office of Nice. He was ordered to maintain strict judicial control until his trial on October 15 – attendance twice a week, restricted to leave his home between 8 pm and 6 am, access to nightclubs and drinks – targeting the 34-year-old player, who was prosecuted for sexual assault and was also accused in another case for rape.

Off the basement

On the morning of September 7, the footballer, without a team since he left AS Monaco this summer, was caught in his car in Cap-d’Ail (Alpes-Maritimes), following to the government, following a complaint filed by a young woman in her twenties who alleged that she was sexually assaulted earlier in the evening.

The events that are said to have taken place in Wissam Ben Yedder’s car, in an underground parking lot where the latter would have driven the girl, according to legend. group. “The complainant thought that the door was locked, he did not dare to get out, the pedestrian went to the back seat, touched his thigh, tried to pull him to kiss him and then started and touched his body.” The daily sports report, which specifies that Wissam Ben Yedder was “too much alcohol” and he tried to escape from the police.

On October 15, the footballer, who played mainly for Toulouse and Monaco, who is among the top footballers in the French league in the 21st century, will be judged for “Sexual violence while clearly intoxicated, refusal to comply and driving under the influence of alcohol.” The victim admitted the traffic offenses but denied the allegations of sexual assault. In the summer of 2023, he was charged “rape, attempted rape and sexual assault” in another big and we have already placed under judicial supervision, after having paid a deposit of 900,000 euros. He was also sentenced in 2023 by the Seville court, where he played for three years, to a six-month suspended prison sentence and a fine of more than 130,000 euros for tax evasion.