Hiba Abouk, the wife of Achraf Hakimi with whom she is in the process of divorcing, spoke for the first time since the indictment for rape of the player on March 2 last. In a press release published via an Instagram story, the Spaniard gave her feelings. “If silence can be useful in certain cases or delicate situations, I have an urgent need to express myself,” she explained.
The 36-year-old actress wants to be able to resume her “personal, public and professional life in the least damaging and least traumatic way possible”. While protecting her children who are her “top priority”.
She specifies in her press release that she separated from Achraf Hakimi long before the legal disputes of the PSG player. Divorce proceedings are underway. But the actress is having a hard time with the media whirlwind that is hitting her family today. “Who would have imagined that in addition to facing the usual pain of a separation, to accepting the sorrow of the failure of a family project for which I had given myself body and soul, I would have to face this ignominy, she wrote. I needed time to digest this shock. »
“I will always be on the side of the victims”
Achraf Hakimi is accused of having raped a 24-year-old woman on the night of Saturday February 25 at his home in Boulogne-Billancourt. Hiba Abouk says on this subject: “It goes without saying that in my life, I have always been and will always be on the side of the victims, therefore, given the seriousness of the accusation, we can only trust the good work of Justice “.
The Spaniard ended her statement by asking for a little media respite: “I ask you to respect my privacy and that of my children in these delicate circumstances”.