{"id":1792,"date":"2026-06-19T17:53:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T09:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/?p=1792"},"modified":"2026-06-19T17:53:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T09:53:20","slug":"french-court-confirms-moroccan-football-star-hakimi-will-stand-trial-for-rape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/19\/french-court-confirms-moroccan-football-star-hakimi-will-stand-trial-for-rape\/","title":{"rendered":"French court confirms Moroccan football star Hakimi will stand trial for rape"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"665\" src=\"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-23.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1793\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-23.png 1000w, https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-23-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-23-768x511.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A French appeals court on Friday confirmed that Moroccan football star Achraf Hakimi will face trial for the alleged rape of a woman in 2023, which the Paris Saint-Germain defender denies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In February 2023, a woman then aged 24 told police in the Val-de-Marne region southeast of Paris that Hakimi had raped her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The PSG right-back and captain of the Moroccan national team, whose second match of the 2026 World Cup kicks off on Friday against Scotland, has consistently denied any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shortly after the Versailles Court of Appeal delivered its ruling, Hakimi wrote on X that he had been &#8220;waiting for this trial since day one.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;At last, I&#8217;ll be able to speak,&#8221; he said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A date has not been announced for the start of the trial at the criminal court in the Hauts-de-Seine department.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This confirmation was expected. Nothing here says that he is guilty of anything, he remains steadfast in his defence,&#8221; Hakimi&#8217;s lawyer Fanny Colin said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The plaintiff&#8217;s lawyer Rachel-Flore Pardo said the decision brought her client &#8220;relief and hope&#8221;.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The plaintiff said she met Hakimi in January 2023 on Instagram and went to his home in a taxi ordered by the player, a police source said at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She claimed that the player kissed her, touched her without her consent and then raped her.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She said she managed to push him away and text a friend, who came to pick her up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking to the press for the first time in a Mediapart article published Thursday, the woman, using the pseudonym Jeanne, said she wanted a trial &#8220;to defend myself, to be heard&#8221;.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I want to explain myself. I want people to believe me,&#8221; she added.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A French appeals court on Friday confirmed that Moroccan football star Achraf Hakimi will face trial for the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1794,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792\/revisions\/1794"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}