The French justice opened an investigation on Tuesday for the complaint of the footballer Kylian Mbappé for moral harassment against his previous club, he, who separated him from the discipline of the first team in 2023 as a pressure measure to renew his contract or leave the club. The complaint was announced last month by the lawyers of the now Real Madrid player and has led to the appointment of two instructional judges to investigate the events, as confirmed on Thursday to EFE judicial sources.
Mbappé, who announced at the beginning of the 2023/2024 season that he would not fulfill the third year of optional contract with the PSG, was separated from the first team. The president of the club, Nasser Al Khelaifi, said it was a measure to encourage him to renew his contract or leave immediately, which would have allowed to enter a compensation for transfer. For a month, the striker trained with the second team before he was finally reinstated, after an alleged agreement with the president, to Khaleifi.
The player has denied that agreement and that the PSG considers that they correspond to that verbal treatment. The case has exceeded the different sports instances and the club aspires to reach labor justice. In parallel, Mbappé’s lawyers announced a battery of legal measures against the club to accept the payment of those arrears. Among them, the demand for having separated him from the first team, a practice that has long been denouncing the players union. At the end of season 2023/2024, which caused the anger of the club, which confiscated those 55 million.
