Hayet Abidal, the wife of the former French international, announced on Friday that she was going to file a divorce petition, assuring that Eric Abidal had a relationship with Kheira Hamraoui, the Paris Saint-Germain player assaulted on the 4th November.
Eric Abidal having “confessed to his wife to have an adulterous relationship with Madame Hamraoui”, “Hayet Abidal will file a request for divorce in Barcelona”, announced his lawyer, Nicolas Cellupica, in a press release. The player played for FC Barcelona during a period when he was the Catalan club’s sporting director.
Hayet Abidal “hopes to wash his honor”
In the investigation into the violent assault suffered by Kheira Hamraoui on the evening of November 4 near Paris, investigators from the Versailles judicial police discovered, in the victim’s phone, a chip in the name of Eric Abidal. According to the press release from Hayet Abidal’s lawyer, it was following this information that Eric Abidal “confessed” to his wife his relationship with Kheira Hamraoui. The lawyer for the former player, Olivier Martin, said he would not make “any comment at this stage”. The French could soon be questioned, as well as his wife, as part of a judicial investigation opened Monday and entrusted to an investigating judge at Versailles.
“Taken to task, despite herself, in the Hamraoui affair”, Hayet Abidal “hopes to wash away his honor and his reputation tarnished by rumor and reiterates his wish to be heard very quickly on a case which has already made several collateral victims , ”Continued the press release from his lawyer, Me Cellupica. Tuesday, his client had assured to have “nothing to do with these facts”.
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