A week after his brother Mathias, another relative of Paul Pogba was released from pre-trial detention on Friday, despite his indictment in the investigation into extortion targeting the footballer.

A Parisian investigating judge granted the request for release filed by the lawyer for Boubacar Camara, childhood friend of Paul Pogba who had been indicted and imprisoned in September, according to a judicial source familiar with the matter. .

The prosecution opposed this request but did not seize the first president of the Paris Court of Appeal in time, allowing the release Friday evening of Boubacar Camara.

However, he will soon have to appear before the investigating chamber, which will examine the public prosecutor's appeal.

“This is a significant step forward in this case,” commented Me Saïd Harir, who defends Boubacar Camara.

"We have demonstrated that the detention of our client was no longer justified, which the two investigating magistrates understood perfectly," he said.

“It is to do justice in this case which has experienced a certain media frenzy”.

An extortion attempt at 13 million euros

On December 23, the footballer's brother, Mathias Pogba, indicted in this investigation for extortion in an organized gang and participation in a criminal association, had already been released.

In addition to Mathias Pogba and Boubacar Camara, three other people have been indicted.

One of them was also released in early December.

It was Mathias Pogba himself who revealed in an enigmatic video broadcast on August 27 the extortion of which his younger brother, who plays at Juventus in Turin (Italy), claims to be the victim.

The latter had denounced in a complaint filed with the Turin public prosecutor's office in July extortion amounting to 13 million euros between March and July 2022. A preliminary investigation had been opened by the Paris public prosecutor's office, then a judicial investigation on September 2 for , in particular, extortion with a weapon, kidnapping or sequestration in an organized gang and participation in a criminal association.



Paul Pogba told French investigators that he was trapped by childhood friends and two hooded men, armed with assault rifles, who blamed him for not having helped them financially.

Of the 13 million euros claimed, he says he paid 100,000 euros.

Boubacar Camara, who was also very close to the footballer's mother, Yeo Moriba, is notably suspected of having been given these 100,000 euros, which he disputes.

Mathias Pogba, who denies any participation in the facts, is also suspected of having pressured his brother's agent, lawyer Rafaela Pimenta, to get Paul Pogba to pay the sum claimed by his masters singers.

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