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Paris Saint-Germain women’s footballer Aminata Diallo faced further questioning from police on Thursday during a second day of detention over the assault of a teammate.
Diallo was arrested on Wednesday morning in connection with a vicious attack on fellow midfielder and rival Kheira Hamraoui last week who was pulled from a car and beaten on the legs with an iron bar by two masked men.
Diallo was driving Hamraoui home at the time and police are trying to determine if she had any link to the violence, which left the victim needing stitches on cuts to her legs and hands.
“The longer the detention lasts, the less positive it is,” a source close to the club told AFP on condition of anonymity.
A third PSG player, Sakina Karchaoui, was called to make a statement by police on Thursday morning, while a man was taken into custody in the city of Lyon on Wednesday, judicial sources said.
Paris Saint-Germain cancelled a planned media event by the women’s team on Friday, fearing that all the questions would be about an incident that has shaken the wealthy Qatar-owned club and the women’s league more broadly.
“It’s something that’s shocked me,” the coach of Lyon’s long-dominant women’s team, Sonia Bompastor, said on Wednesday night after a Champions League game against Bayern Munich.
“I’m still a bit blown over by this incident. Even among the men, we’ve never seen something like this. It’s obviously negative (for the women’s game),” she added.
Clubs across Europe have ploughed money into women’s football in recent years, with PSG’s team attracting 16,000 supporters to their last game on Tuesday night against Real Madrid.
⌛️ C’est terminé ! Les parisiennes s’imposent 4 à 0 face au Real Madrid et confortent la première place de leur groupe. 🔴🔵
3⃣ victoires en 3⃣ matchs ✅#PSGRM
Source : france24
