Moroccan star denies wrongdoing as legal proceedings move forward.

Moroccan international and Paris Saint-Germain footballer Achraf Hakimi will stand trial charged with raping a young woman, his lawyer and a French prosecutor said on Tuesday.

In February 2023, a 24-year-old woman reported to police in Val-De-Marne, southeast of Paris, that Hakimi had raped her.

The 27-year-old footballer denies any wrongdoing.

Today a rape accusation is enough to justify a trial, even though I contest it and everything proves that it is false, he wrote on X on Tuesday. I await this trial calmly, which will allow the truth to come out publicly.

Hakimi’s lawyer Fanny Colin said a trial had been ordered, and the prosecutor in the Nanterre suburb of Paris confirmed.

A trial has been ordered on the basis of an accusation that rests solely on the word of a woman who obstructed all investigations, refused all medical examinations and DNA tests, refused to allow her mobile phone to be examined, and refused to give the name of a key witness, Colin said.

PSG coach Luis Enrique, asked about the case at a press conference ahead of the Champions League play-off second leg match with Monaco, said, This matter is in the hands of the authorities.

CBI News reports that the plaintiff’s lawyer Rachel-Flore Pardo said her client was relieved that the case was going to court. She described the judiciary as exemplary in handling the matter but added that it showed