Footballers are prime targets for burglars. In April 2022, a note distributed through the services of the central directorate of the judicial police (DCPJ) warned of the increase in these crimes. There were 13 in 2020, 21 in 2021 and even more last year.
In August 2017, L’Équipe highlighted the “too long chronology” of burglaries in Marseille, citing a dozen events that occurred between 2011 and 2017. The homes of Jérémy Morel, André-Pierre Gignac and Dimitri Payet were targeted. Lassana Diarra too. “That’s it, deflowered,” he wrote with humor on Twitter in April 2016, aware that the phenomenon is common in football.
Injured, Keylor Navas gives up his place to Sergio Rico at half-time of PSG-Montpellier, January 22, 2021. The Spanish goalkeeper does not concede any goals and, on returning home to Neuilly-sur-Seine, discovers his home burglarized . Luxury watches and jewelry are there. In November 2022, he was targeted again but caught the intruder in the act and snatched his backpack. The things in the bag will make it possible to find a 17-year-old high school student, as told by Le Parisien.
At the end of January 2021, a few days after Sergio Rico, it was Mauro Icardi who was robbed, also in Neuilly-sur-Seine, while he was traveling to Lorient with PSG. The Argentine attacker has more than 400,000 euros worth of goods stolen.
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On March 14, 2021, burglars broke into the home of the defender and captain of PSG, in Yvelines, in the middle of PSG-Nantes. The Brazilian’s father and two daughters are there and are victims of violence. The thugs leave with two luxury bags, a bracelet and 2,400 euros. Two men were sentenced to several years in prison in this case.
Marquinhos was not the only one robbed on March 14, 2021. Angel Di Maria lost, that evening in Neuilly-sur-Seine, around forty luxury watches and jewelry stored in a safe. The total assets are around 500,000 euros. Two men were sentenced to prison in February 2023.
Starting against Bordeaux on August 15, 2021, Brazilian defender Luan Peres did not find some jewelry and luxury clothing at his home, in the 11th arrondissement of Marseille, when he returned in the evening.
Two months after Luan Peres, it was Valentin Rongier’s house in Cassis, in the middle of OM-PSG, which was broken into. A new attempt, unsuccessful this time after an alarm was triggered, took place in April 2023.
Three weeks before Christmas, in 2021, French international striker Jonathan Ikoné is the victim of a burglary, the damage of which is estimated at 250,000 euros, reports L’Équipe.
The defender and world champion with the Blues saw his home in Noisy-le-Roi looted in November 2022. Two men were sentenced to prison last March.
In the middle of OM-Rennes in the Coupe de France, in January 2023, individuals broke into the house in Cassis of Sead Kolasinac, Bosnian defender, while his wife and daughter were present.
Tied up with his wife in the middle of a burglary in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, Gianluigi Donnarumma experienced a traumatic episode last July. The Actu 17 site put the damage at around 500,000 euros.
As revealed by Le Parisien, two neighboring Rémois, Arber Zeneli and Valon Berisha, were burglarized in August 2023. More than 350,000 euros were stolen.
During a friendly match against Leverkusen, OM midfielder Matteo Guendouzi was the victim of a burglary in Cassis while his wife was present. She scared away the thugs. Guendouzi left Marseille for Lazio Rome a few days later.
Burglars failed to enter Dejan Lovren’s home last October. The Croatian defender was then on the pitch with OL against Clermont.
Scorer from the penalty spot against Klaksvik in the Europa Conference League on December 14, Yusuf Yazici was, at the same time, robbed. Watches and clothes went through it.
