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On Saturday evening, September 17, five men were taken into police custody as part of the investigation into the extortion reported by Paul Pogba. In addition to Mathias Pogba, the footballer’s brother, four other people were arrested – all childhood friends of the French international. As BFM TV reports, among them is a man with a very bad personality profile who has already been convicted in the past for his links to jihadism.
Roushdane, the person’s first name, is 36 years old. He was the one who prompted the judiciary to act faster and make the arrests as early as Saturday, as investigators had indications that he was about to flee abroad. So in 2017, Roushdane had been sentenced to five years in prison for supplying a Taser that was used in a kidnapping. According to BFM TV, this hostage-taking was intended to finance the departure of another person to Syria for jihadist purposes.
Roushdane was taken into police custody, where he presented a splinted arm and stated that he had suffered a gunshot wound in connection with the Pogba case. His brother Mohamed, who was also mentioned in the affair, was also arrested. The other suspects are also close friends of Paul Pogba, whom they knew from childhood. Mamadou, called “Mam’s”, is from Roissy-en-Brie, where the footballer grew up. The footballer accuses him of stealing 200,000 euros from him when they were both living in a villa in Manchester, United Kingdom.
The last suspect is called Boubacar. He has so far been described as Paul Pogba’s “confidant”. However, according to information from Le Parisien and BFM TV, he was the one who allegedly received the 100,000 euros that Mathias Pogba and his gang extorted last spring. Pogba was already charged on Saturday with gang-related extortion and participation in a criminal organisation.
https://www.valeursactuelles.com/faits-divers/affaire-pogba-lun-des-suspects-lie-au-djihadisme