She wants to turn the page but still addresses a few tackles. French footballer Kheira Hamraoui, who signed with Club America in Mexico, explained to AFP that she wanted to play in “a healthy environment” after her attack in November 2021, and far from PSG which, she said, “had” her. mistreated.” “Here, I am in a healthy environment and that is the most important thing. I experienced traumatic moments in France and being here can only do me good. After the attack of which I was the victim, I was not spared by my club, social networks and the French press,” Kheira Hamraoui told AFP.
After his attack, a judicial investigation was opened for “criminal conspiracy” and “aggravated violence”. The investigation was then widened for “organized gang fraud” due to suspicions of actions in the entourage of Aminata Diallo, ex-PSG player suspected of being involved in the attack on Hamraoui. In this section, César Mavacala, sports advisor to Marie-Antoinette Katoto and Kadidiatou Diani, two close friends of Diallo, was indicted.
The former FC Barcelona and Lyon player, with whom she won the Champions League three times, was left free in the summer by Paris Saint-Germain. In November 2021, upon returning from a team dinner, she suffered a violent attack in Chatou (Yvelines), beaten with an iron bar by hooded men. Her Parisian teammate Aminata Diallo was subsequently placed in pre-trial detention and then indicted in this case against the backdrop of a rivalry between players.
The affair, which was highly publicized and which led to positions taken by other players from PSG and the French women’s team, greatly disrupted the career of Hamraoui, 33 years old, 41 caps for Les Bleues.
“Some of my ex-teammates and club employees know to what extent I was mistreated by PSG after my attack” but “that did not stop me from fighting to return to the field and regain my place as holder,” continued Kheira Hamraoui. “Perhaps PSG did not know or want to manage all this media attention for reasons other than sporting. They took the easy way out by trying to push me out before the end of my contract,” she insisted.
On the French team side, the midfielder “dreams of returning there one day” but believes she no longer has “any hope” after missing the World Cup this summer.
“I was dismissed before the World Cup for so-called ‘sporting’ reasons,” she says, without having digested the choice of Hervé Renard. Those who follow women’s football and its French team know what to expect. There too, one day, we will perhaps discover the underside of the cards of my eviction. I am convinced that if I had been Swedish, English or Spanish, I would never have been abandoned by my Federation or my club, as I was after my attack. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: in France, we don’t like victims.”
