{"id":338261,"date":"2025-08-12T11:00:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T11:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/338261\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T11:00:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T11:00:11","slug":"achraf-hakimi-facing-frances-independent-upright-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/338261\/","title":{"rendered":"Achraf Hakimi Facing France\u2019s Independent, Upright Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"

While nothing suggested it would happen, and in the middle of summer, French justice decided<\/a> to prosecute Achraf Hakimi for rape. The prosecutor\u2019s office in Nante indeed requested last weekend that the PSG player be sent before the criminal court of Hauts-de-Seine, for alleged rape that would have been committed in February 2023. But no panic for our national champion, he will be judged by independent and upright justice.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the prosecutor\u2019s office that decided on the referral. However, in France, the prosecutor\u2019s office is considered a judicial authority, but remains under the hierarchical supervision of the Keeper of the Seals, Minister of Justice.<\/p>\n

The question here is simply to know<\/a> whether or not the current minister, G\u00e9rald Darmanin, is informed of this referral decision. Given Achraf Hakimi\u2019s status as a key PSG player and captain of the Moroccan national team, we can suppose: yes, Darmanin is well informed.<\/p>\n

However, if we suppose yes, it would be surprising by such an attitude coming from a man who says of himself a friend of Morocco, and it\u2019s not about discharging a guilty person, but simply being fair.<\/p>\n

Alas\u2026Even the state channel France24 sponsored a Facebook post with an explicit title: \u201cTrial for rape requested against Hakimi.\u201d No nuance, nothing!<\/p>\n

If there is unanimity or almost unanimity of Moroccan public opinion around this Hakimi affair and on a possible manipulation of justice to discredit the footballer, it\u2019s because the timing of this decision is quite strange; indeed, the Ballon d\u2019Or award for which the Moroccan is nominated occurs in a few weeks, and people quickly thought that this whole affair is \u201cstaged\u201d to favor Achraf Hakimi\u2019s teammate, namely Ousmane Demb\u00e9l\u00e9.<\/p>\n

Moroccans are right to wonder: what happened since February 2023, the month this affair occurred, to convince the prosecutor to refer the player to the criminal chamber, where he risks 15 years in prison?<\/p>\n

Not much, and according to L\u2019Equipe, the text messages exchanged<\/a> by the alleged victim point toward an extortion attempt conducted against the Moroccan footballer. This is what makes his defense say that the prosecutor\u2019s requisitions are \u201cincomprehensible and senseless in light of the case file elements.\u201d<\/p>\n

We remember that for another affair, that of Sa\u00e2d Lemjarred, Moroccan public opinion was divided between the fans and unconditional supporters of the singer accused of rape and others, who support that justice must prevail. In that affair, the rape was established and the Moroccan public, despite the irreducible and intractable admirers, accepted the judges\u2019 verdict.<\/p>\n

For Hakimi, things are different. Nothing is established, apart from doubtful behavior from the person who presents herself as a victim. But let\u2019s reassure ourselves, French justice is independent and suffers neither pressure nor passion, in its affairs with Morocco, with the world, or with France\u2026<\/p>\n

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  1. Eric Laurent and Catherine Graciet Case.<\/b> Two proven blackmailers, recorded, caught red-handed, who confessed their blackmail enterprise against the King of Morocco, were condemned to a light sentence. Eight years after the facts, despite all the evidence. The case is on appeal. Independent and upright justice will rule in October 2025.<\/li>\n
  2. Moroccan State Case against French press organizations.<\/b> In 2021, several French media and NGOs had accused Morocco of using Pegasus software to spy on practically the entire earth, including Emmanuel Macron, European dignitaries\u2026 Obviously, they provide no other proof than their usual offended condescension.
    Morocco goes to court and is dismissed in criminal court, on appeal, and in cassation. The reason? It\u2019s drawn from a law from\u2026 1881, which stipulates that a State cannot be assimilated to a private individual and therefore cannot initiate a defamation action against press organs. Independent and upright justice has ruled\u2026<\/li>\n
  3. Omar Raddad Case.<\/b> He did nothing other than being<\/a> Moroccan, a gardener, and barely literate. Everything \u2014 absolutely everything \u2014 shows and substantiates his innocence, but he remains condemned, not rehabilitated, despite the doubts, DNA, and the assaults by Raddad\u2019s lawyers. Independent and upright justice \u201ckilled him.\u201d
    \u2026without counting the numerous \u201clittle judges\u201d who worked and tried to make a name for themselves by \u201ctaking down a Moroccan,\u201d some having plunged into the Benbarka affair, others in the curious summons of Abdellatif Hammouchi in 2014\u2026<\/li>\n
  4. Fran\u00e7ois Fillon Case.<\/b> Very complex, this case made its main protagonist say it was an \u201cinstitutional coup d\u2019\u00e9tat,\u201d where the National Financial Prosecutor\u2019s Office, presented as the armed wing of political power, would have been instrumentalized to prevent the former prime minister from conducting, and perhaps winning, the 2017 presidential election.
    He was very opportunely accused one month before the election. Since then, independent and upright justice has been maneuvering, tackled by the Constitutional Council and mistreated by Fran\u00e7ois Fillon\u2019s scandalized lawyers.<\/li>\n
  5. Marine Le Pen Case.<\/b> This somewhat recalls the Fillon file\u2026While a third of the French electorate demands her, justice very heavily condemns Marine Le Pen, prison, ineligibility, fine\u2026Even the prosecutor, in a moment of inattention and according to National Rally people, would have recognized having nothing real to reproach her for. But the independent and upright judges don\u2019t see Marine Le Pen at the \u00c9lys\u00e9e, that\u2019s all.<\/li>\n
  6. Tarik Ramadan Case.<\/b> The Swiss theologian had been prosecuted<\/a> for several rape accusations, based on text messages exchanged between him and his alleged victims, 10 years earlier. Simple question: how, who has an interest, and who can bring out text messages that are a decade old?In the end, Ramadan had been cleared of all rape accusations, but adultery, although consensual, definitively tainted Tarik Ramadan\u2019s reputation as a prudish man. Independent and upright justice passed, Ramadan (morally) passed away.Judges who pursued, hunted, mistreated, humiliated a former President of the Republic, who had certainly qualified them one day of wandering as \u201cpetits pois\u201d (insignificant), and condemned him solely for money questions. Very well, but then why don\u2019t these same judges even dare to think of going after genociders like Netanyahu or Gallant, Ben Gvir, or Smotrich, to name only the current ones? French justice must have forgotten for a moment that it is independent and upright.<\/li>\n
  7. Foreign Heads of State and dignitaries.<\/b> French justice, in all ethics and independence, multiplies trials for ill-gotten goods or crimes against humanity\u2026 against Africans. But nothing against Tony Blair and George Bush, who nevertheless recognized their lies in 2003 before attacking Iraq, and even less against Israeli killers or others too, who maintain good diplomatic relations with their country; Netanyahu, sought by the International Criminal Court, even flew over French territory, but the independent and upright judges must have been thinking of something else\u2026Would French justice only be independent and upright with variable geometry, with specific geography? Does it function on juridical logic or according to an ideological approach?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    We could fill entire pages with cases like these, but things are sufficiently clear.<\/p>\n

    In short\u2026 Let\u2019s return to La Fontaine: \u201cDepending on whether you are powerful or miserable, court judgments will render you white or black.\u201d Concretely, according to French researchers, in \u201cthe penal response\u201d (Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2013), \u201cthe least favored are more heavily condemned,\u201d and this goes back to Jean Valjean in Les Mis\u00e9rables, and was also confirmed later during the Dreyfus affair.<\/p>\n

    For Achraf Hakimi, the \u201cvictim\u2019s\u201d text messages are clear and show an extortion intent, and her behavior is doubtful. We can therefore only be optimistic and reassured, or not, for our national champion, faced with the guarantees presented by independent and upright French justice\u2026 But he remains our national champion, smiling, empathetic and upright\u2026 and his file for this rape is as devoid of evidence as the independent and upright French judges are of remorse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While nothing suggested it would happen, and in the middle of summer, French justice decided to prosecute Achraf…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[120767,2000,299,36,120768,120769],"class_list":{"0":"post-338261","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-achraf-hakimi","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-france","12":"tag-hakimi-france-justice","13":"tag-hakimi-rape-case"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115015452298612581","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}