Possible new reversal of the situation in the case of Eric Abidal's liver transplant.

According to the Spanish daily

El Confidencial

, after a new examination carried out by the National Institute of Toxicology, the final report would conclude that there is no family link between the former Barcelona defender and his supposed cousin and donor, Gerard Armand.

This new information is added to a whole series of others that have stirred the news of Barça and the former Lyonnais since the summer of 2017. For those who had not followed, we will try to tell you sum it up as best you can.

An investigation was opened in 2017 by the National Organization of Transplants and by the Spanish public prosecutor's office, which considered suspicious the way in which the former Lyonnais had acquired the organ in question, in 2012. Suspicions of illegal purchase in connection with a possible organ trafficking then weighed on the procedure after the tapping of the former president of the Blaugrana club, Sandro Rosell.

After listening to these recordings, the Spanish justice suspected the former boss of FC Barcelona and the former sports director Juanjo Castillo of having participated in one way or another in the purchase of an illegal liver.

The cousin asks for accounts

In the meantime, the former tricolor international stepped up to "publicly condemn the attitude of certain media" and published on Instagram a photo of him and his cousin, a certain Gérard Armand, in a Barcelona hospital, at the time of the transplantation.

Problem, the cousin in question ended up wondering in turn about the conditions of the transplant, going so far as to constitute a civil party to have access to the documents in the file.

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At the same time, in February 2019, when the Spanish courts decided to reopen the investigation, Armand Gérard granted an interview to the JDD in which he declared: "I would like to shed light on this affair, I feel that there is shenanigans.

I want to be heard by the courts.

I was cut open, my liver was severed and I read that I would not be the donor…”.

Ten months later, he did it again in the columns of

El Confidencial

.

“I would like to know if anyone has made a profit with my donation, with my body.

And if there is something, I don't know how to say it, but I hope Eric doesn't know, that it has nothing to do with the subject.

Gérard Armand concludes his interview by explaining that he regrets the absence of “human recognition” from Eric Abidal and confides that he felt forgotten after the transplant.

Today, not only is the doubt as to the origin of the liver still relevant, but it could also be that the pseudo-cousin is not one, due to the absence of a blood link revealed by new toxicological tests.

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