At the end of August 2022,
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang experienced a terrible misadventure. As he was preparing to leave FC Barcelona to join Chelsea, the Gabonese striker was the victim of a violent robbery at his home in Castelldefels, near Barcelona.
During an interview given to The Athleticthe 35-year-old talks about the circumstances of this tragedy. “My oldest son came running and said, ‘Dad, there are guys in the house.’ The robbers entered from outside, where my wife was smoking with my cousin and her boyfriend. They took it and entered the house. My wife was screaming. They had a gun,” reveals the one who now plays in Saudi Arabia, in Al-Qadsiah.
Aubameyang, his children bear the after-effects of the tragedy
The most complicated thing to bear remains the trauma caused to your children. “After that, the children told me: ‘Dad, I don’t want to go to school, I’m afraid something will happen there.’ For a year, my youngest told me: ‘I can’t sleep alone’. It was a big fight. It’s always in the back of our minds.” confess
the former Olympique de Marseille scorer.
Four men had threatened Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang with guns and iron bars, then beat him. They also intimidated his wife and children until they managed to open a safe from which they stole several pieces of jewelry.
