The former captain of AS Monaco could face up to a year in prison after the prosecutor’s requisition on Tuesday October 15.
Former AS Monaco striker and captain Wissam Ben Yedder could soon end up in prison. The Nice prosecutor’s office requested, Tuesday, October 15, two and a half years in prison against the former player of the France team, including one year “adjustable” for acts of sexual assault during a night when he had consumed a lot of alcohol alone.
The player, now without a contract, appeared for “sexual assault while clearly drunk”, “refusal to comply” and “driving under the influence of alcohol” on the night of September 6 to 7. “JI thought it could do me good, it made me forget, it helped me stop thinking.”explained the ex-Monegasque, describing himself as “someone lonely [qui s’est] refuge behind alcohol”.
The course of the evening
During this evening, Ben Yedder allegedly met a group of five young individuals in the parking lot near a beach where he had isolated himself. The player subsequently dragged two of them, including the complainant, into his vehicle. After dropping off the first person, with whom Wissam Ben Yedder had apparently hit it off, he continued his journey, into his garage, with the 23-year-old young woman as a passenger. Present at the hearing, crying when speaking and describing the facts, she only confirmed “clearly” his first statements. Passing to the back of the car, Wissam Ben Yedder would have first “caressed the thigh inside” before masturbating while observing her chest and trying to hug her.
She finally managed to escape and “hide behind a trash can”. “I was scared because he was bipolar”she added. “When I drink, I’m no longer myselfdefended the former attacker, now far from the field. I really don’t remember what happened.”he continued, swearing that “without alcohol, it’s impossible, it would never occur to me”.
The prosecutor also requested an obligation of care and a six-month driving license suspension.