{"id":24211,"date":"2026-02-25T08:57:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T06:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/paris-st-germains-hakimi-to-face-trial-for-rape\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:34:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:34:56","slug":"paris-st-germains-hakimi-to-face-trial-for-rape","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/paris-st-germains-hakimi-to-face-trial-for-rape\/","title":{"rendered":"Paris St Germain\u2019s Hakimi to face trial for rape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Moroccan soccer player Achraf Hakimi is to face trial for rape, the defender, who plays for Paris St Germain and the Moroccan national squad, said in a social media post on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>He denies the allegation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, a rape accusation is enough to justify a trial, even though I deny it and everything proves it\u2019s false,\u201d Hakimi said in a post on X. \u201cThis is as unjust to the innocent as it is to the genuine victims. I calmly await this trial, which will allow the truth to come out publicly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Nanterre prosecutor\u2019s office had opened an investigation in 2023 after an allegation of rape was made against him.<\/p>\n<p>The prosecutor confirmed on Tuesday that Hakimi\u2019s case had been sent to trial.<\/p>\n<p>Paris St Germain will face Monaco in Wednesday\u2019s return leg of their Champions League knockout round playoff tie.<\/p>\n<p>Hakimi was in the initial squad list published last Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014Reuters\u2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":21432,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-24211","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"The prosecutor confirmed on Tuesday that Hakimi\u2019s case had been sent to trial.","published_date":null,"news_description":"The prosecutor confirmed on Tuesday that Hakimi\u2019s case had been sent to trial.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/24211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/24211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26963,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/24211\/revisions\/26963"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=24211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}