The investigation was entrusted to the Territorial Security, after accusations from a 24-year-old woman who said she was raped on February 25 at the player's home in Boulogne-Billancourt, said the source familiar with the matter.

Contacted by AFP, the Nanterre prosecutor's office refused to communicate on this affair, deploring that "the information already published" in the press "undermines the investigations necessary for the manifestation of the truth".

According to a police source, this woman went to the police station in Nogent sur Marne (Val-de-Marne) to denounce acts of rape by Achraf Hakimi.

They had met in January on the social network Instagram, continues this source, and she had gone Saturday evening to the player in a VTC (transport car with driver) ordered by Hakimi.

On the spot, she reports that Hakimi, 24, kissed her and touched her without her consent before raping her.

She says she got rid of him by kicking him.

A friend, contacted by SMS, came to recover it, always concludes this source.

Investigation opened in Nanterre

The Créteil public prosecutor's office opened an investigation and then transferred the procedure to Nanterre, the town of Boulogne-Billancourt where the facts in the Hauts-de-Seine would have taken place.

Paris Saint-Germain Moroccan defender Achraf Hakimi during the PSG-Metz Ligue 1 match on May 21, 2022 in Paris © Anne-Christine POUJOULAT / AFP/Archives

Contacted by AFP, PSG did not react immediately.

The player was present at the "Fifa Best" Trophies ceremony on Monday evening in Paris, during which he competes to appear in the typical team of the year.

Achraf Hakimi arrived at Paris Saint-Germain in 2021 from Inter Milan, already crowned with a certain status.

Injured in the hamstrings, he did not participate in the Ligue 1 clash on Sunday in Marseille, won 3-0 by PSG against OM.

A very close friend of Kylian Mbappé, the two men, both 24, staged their friendship on social networks, during the World Cup in Qatar in November-December 202 2 and France's victory over Morocco in the semi-finals. final in no way altered their complicity.

"We are two young men who share the same tastes, we talk about music, video games, we go to the restaurant," Hakimi told Le Parisien before the World Cup.

Son of a housekeeper and a traveling salesman, both Moroccans and living in Spain since the 1980s, this gifted defender was born in Getafe, in the southern suburbs of Madrid, in the Las Margaritas district.

Perfect Spanish speaker, married to a Spanish actress, Hiba Abouk, he started football in Ofigevi, then quickly joined the Real Madrid training center, where he did all his classes.

Then he shone in Dortmund, at Inter Milan, before joining PSG.

Hakimi could also have become a Spanish international, but he made the sporting choice of Morocco, the country of his parents, to wear the jersey of the national team.

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