Unemployed France striker Wissam Ben Yedder admits to being an alcoholic as he is handed journey ban whereas going through trial for ‘a intercourse act in entrance of a younger girl’ after ingesting whisky alone in his automobile

Former France striker Wissam Ben Yedder has admitted to being an alcoholic amid an allegation he carried out a intercourse act in entrance of a younger girl in his automobile whereas drunk on whisky.

Ben Yedder is accused of driving the younger girl, born in 2001, to an underground automobile park, trying to masturbate in entrance of her, and touching her thigh, as reported by RMC Sport. 

The ex-Sevilla and Monaco striker, 34, is reportedly set to go on trial for sexual assault on October 15 after being arrested earlier this month in Cap d’Ail, close to Good.

His defence insists that the allegation of touching the lady on the thigh is ‘not a critical truth’.  

He was arrested in a ‘state of intoxication’ between the evening of Friday September 6 and the early hours of the Saturday morning. 

Ben Yedder is banned from leaving the Alpes-Maritimes area, is beneath curfew from 8pm to 6am, can’t go to any bars or golf equipment, and should not method his alleged sufferer. He additionally has to report back to a police station twice per week till his trial. 

Good’s public prosecution workplace and the legal professional basic needed Ben Yedder to be detained till his trial, nevertheless, an investigating chamber has determined he ought to stay free from judicial supervision till then.  

As he appeared earlier than an investigating chamber on Tuesday September 17, the abstract of occasions claimed he was drunk with a ‘bottle of whisky and coke’ in his automobile whereas a small group of younger individuals have been close by.

One of many younger girls claimed that Ben yedder stored her and took her, together with a younger male, for a trip in his automobile to the underground location.

In response to the younger girl, after the male had left, Ben Yedder allegedly ‘tried to masturbate in entrance of her’ and touched her earlier than she managed to flee and conceal behind a bin. 

Finally, the younger girl recounts, she made it to her buddies and took sanctuary in a member of the family’s home and filed a criticism with the police. 

Two different witnesses additionally describe Ben Yedder exhibiting ‘aggressive and drunken’ behaviour, although they weren’t current after he had pushed off with the younger girl. 

‘You’re feeling omnipotent since you’re a soccer participant,’ the legal professional basic mentioned on the listening to. ‘You may get away with something. You continue to end up in a considerably unhappy state of affairs for you, when you end up in a seashore automobile park, alone on a Friday evening. 

‘So alone that you just’re in a automobile with a bottle of whisky. The younger individuals recognise you and then you definately do a little bit of a buying with () the women, “look, is that this one free or not”.’

Ben Yedder has reportedly attended Alcoholics Nameless and admitted that he ‘hopes to treatment himself of the state of affairs’. 

‘I am making an effort,’ mentioned the previous French worldwide. ‘To cease for good is the most effective resolution to treatment myself. I’ve at all times identified and I’ve at all times been there when justice known as on me.’

He has additionally seen a ‘specialist psychologist’. 

His defence lawyer has insisted: ‘The truth that he allegedly put his hand on the complainant’s thigh, in actuality these usually are not critical information.’

The lawyer added that he’s ‘completely built-in in France’ and that he’s a ‘first-time offender in sexual affairs’.

‘He is among the prime scorers in Ligue 1. He was in negotiations with a number of golf equipment, together with a French membership earlier than this night,’ they mentioned. 

Ben Yedder final performed worldwide soccer in June 2022.  

Throughout stints with Toulouse, Sevilla, and Monaco, the clubless ahead has scored 259 targets in 513 video games.