The prosecution clarified that it was seeking to “to make heard [Mme Diani] for her to come and explain what she denounced in this complaint”. He also confirmed that his complaint targeted two gestures attributed to the ex-coach, who allegedly touched Diani’s buttocks in August 2021, the first time leaving the locker room and the second with a mini baseball bat while she was going up with other PSG players on a bus.
Ollé-Nicolle allegedly touched the buttocks of several players
“Didier Ollé-Nicolle firmly contests the facts with which he is accused and of which he knows nothing at this stage“, declared his lawyer, Me Guillaume Traynard, contacted by AFP. The ex-trainer “reserves the right to file a complaint in turn to defend its honor and assert its rights“, concluded his council.
Contacted, the entourage of the Olympique Lyonnais player did not respond immediately. According to a source close to the matter, the Parisian club launched an internal investigation in May 2021 when the facts concerned by Kadidiatou Diani’s complaint were reported during training during the season.
Kadidiatou Diani with PSG in the Champions League
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The coach was then fired and players including Kadidiatou Diani as well as the former coach were questioned. Still according to this source, the internal investigation carried out did not demonstrate any misconduct by the coach. Didier Ollé-Nicolle remained in post with the Parisian club for less than a year until he was sidelined at the end of May 2022 to investigate accusations of behavior.inappropriate” towards a player, which he disputed before the investigators.
Elements which emerged during the investigation into the assault of another ex-PSG player, Kheira Hamraoui, had pushed the Versailles prosecutor’s office to open a judicial investigation on May 15, 2022 against authority”.
This investigation is “still under instruction” And “nears the end“, the public prosecutor told AFP on Wednesday. A few months after the suspension of Mr. Ollé-Nicolle, PSG specified that “no fault or failure [n’avait] was held against him” as part of the internal investigation carried out by the club. Asked by AFP, Paris Saint-Germain did not wish to comment.