PSG handball left-back Elohim Prandi was the victim of a violent assault last night in Paris, and was hospitalized. An investigation is currently underway.
PSG handball player Elohim Prandi, summoned for the preparation of the France team for Euro 2022 (January 13-30), was stabbed on New Year’s Eve but is out of danger, the club announced on Saturday.
“Elohim Prandi was the victim of a violent assault last night in Paris and suffered several stab wounds. The player is currently under observation in hospital and his condition does not cause concern,” said PSG in a statement. According to our information, the news is rather reassuring concerning his state of health.
“The Club expresses its indignation in the face of this aggression and gives its full support to Elohim Prandi and to his relatives to get through this ordeal.”
Potentially forfeit for the Euro
The left-back with 10 selections with the Blues announced himself as a basic man for coach Guillaume Gille at the next Euro, organized from January 13 to 30 in Hungary and Slovakia. Even if he could not join the first preparation module from December 26 to 30 due to a positive test for Covid-19.
After a break for the New Year’s Eve, the French Olympic champion team must meet again at the Maison du handball in Créteil from Sunday to resume its preparation. But Elohim Prandi is now moving towards a package for the tournament, said a source with knowledge of the case.
The 23-year-old player trained in Ivry-sur-Seine would be added to a long list of absentees, those of Olympic champions Timothey N’Guessan, Nedim Remili and Luka Karabatic, all three injured. As for Luka’s brother, Nikola Karabatic, triple Olympic champion and French handball star, he was unavailable for this first internship due to a coronavirus infection including “two or three days a little difficult with a lot of symptoms”, had described his brother.
If he did not participate in the Tokyo Olympics, Elohim Prandi had been retained in the prelist before being dismissed for the benefit of players who played in the qualifying tournament, which he had missed due to injury.
The Blues hope to imitate their predecessors of the Experts of 2008-2009 by winning the tournament following their Olympic coronation, but their preparation has been particularly disrupted for several days, due in particular to the multiplication of cases of Covid (at least eight positive cases).