Moroccan national team soccer player Achraf Hakimi has been placed under judicial supervision in France and has been banned from contacting his alleged victim.
PARIS — Moroccan national team soccer player Achraf Hakimi is facing an investigation in France after being charged with rape Thursday evening, the prosecutor’s office in the Parisian suburb of Nanterre said Friday.Hakimi has been placed under judicial supervision and has been banned from contacting his alleged victim, the office added.
Playing for Morocco’s national team, Hakimi was a key figure during the soccer World Cup in Qatar last year.Under French law, the charges against Hakimi will not automatically result in a trial and could still be dismissed. The 24-year-old, who was born in Spain, currently plays as a defender for France’s Paris Saint-Germain club, which did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Hakimi was seen training with other club members on Friday, Agence France-Presse reported.According to the Associated Press, PSG Coach Christophe Galtier told reporters Friday that he would “answer no questions of a non-sporting nature [relating to] Achraf Hakimi.
According to French media reports, the Nanterre prosecutor’s office launched a preliminary investigation Monday, after a woman told authorities that she had been raped by the soccer player at his home in Boulogne-Billancourt on the outskirts of Paris. The alleged incident reportedly happened last Saturday.
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