A documentary that risks talking. This Thursday evening, France 2 broadcasts “power, scandal and big sous: the offside of PSG” as part of the program “Investigation supplement”. In addition to the rise of Nasser Al-Khelaïfi in the world of football, its role in the soap opera of TV rights or the sprawling case of the affairs of Barbouzeries around PSG, the report also returned to the famous digital army. As a reminder, according to Mediapart, a digital agency was engaged by the capital's club to lead several fights on social networks between 2018 and 2020, in order to denigrate personalities, the media, and even club players.
A shadow army at the initiative of Jean-Martial Ribes
“I went up the Paname Squad account and I met a person who will be called Omar. He was the small hand behind the account. We reveal that he received the orders of Jean-Martial Ribes, the former director of PSG. We had confirmation that there have been several meetings at La Factory. They were even accredited from time to time on the park lawn. Have they received orders from PSG to harm online? Yes, to put pressure on the players and the supposed enemies of the club ”had also revealed Fabien Touati, the director of this report, guest of the after foot on RMC on Wednesday evening. And we now know more.
Complementary survey went, in fact, in Tunisia where the U -reputation agency worked for PSG – an invoice of 25,000 euros for two months of work in 2019 attests – and was able to exchange with the manager of this digital army. “They wanted us to always talk about PSG. If an influential account spoke badly of PSG, they wanted to cut it! I was asked to put pressure on the players at the time of the contract renegotiations. Rabiot, the problem was his mother in the renegotiation so he had to make him love supporters. Insulting Rabiot because of his mother it seems funny, working for PSG, for anyone, it's crazy, that makes you dream “thus assured the principal concerned, masked face.
If he has also confirmed that “The U-Reputation and Nasser shareholder often discussed together, they knew each other”the documentary also said that Jean-Martial Ribes, the former PSG communication director, was on the initiative of this digital army. “Jean-Martial Ribes wanted to set up a communication strategy with a shadow army on social networks. He asked for funding for this, accepted by Nasser “can we read in particular in this report, which takes for example accounts such as Paname Squad attacking certain players (Rabiot, Mbappé, Neymar) but also on a daily L'Equipe or even in Mediapart after the football Leaks. To illustrate this, the documentary returns in particular to the case of Neymar, who had attacked a Rennes supporter in the stands after the defeat of the PSG in the final of the Coupe de France against Rennes.
The supporter attacked by Neymar lived a hell
Angry, the Brazilian star Neymar had, in fact, pushed a supporter who filmed and insulted the Parisian players when the trophy is handed over. Finally followed a huge controversy and a legal battle. This Thursday, completely inquiry then made big revelations on this file explaining that PSG, via its former communications director Jean-Martial Ribes, had used illegal methods to put pressure on the support named Nelson. “You have to set up a quick file on him. Maybe he has a locker? “ would have said Ribes in particular which is appointed as a principal in the creation of a digital army.
“You have to smash it, rotten its insta and its twitter” While PSG has managed to obtain personal information about its identity. One of the people involved in this digital army also confirmed the involvement of ribes. “Ribes did this to Nasser, to have the management. Of course it is disgusting, it is not done ”. Pressure strokes also supposed in the affairs of barbouzeries around PSG. Questioned during this report, Hicham, the ex-Majordoma of Nasser Al-Khelaïfi, today in conflict with his former boss, too, dropped: “Him (Nasser, Editor's note) when he came he did not speak French well, he needed someone for his races, for his reservations. We were like brothers. People do not know the truth, they think we had private jets etc but that's not the truth “.
Sputum, insults, kidnapping attempts … the former butler of Nak also empties his bag
“I was not allowed to see my family, I had to stay with him 24 hours a day, I had no vacation, I could sleep only when the boss was sleeping. You receive messages at 4 a.m., emails at 6 a.m. and if you don't answer, you're going to have problems. There was no physical, but moral violence, sputum, insults ”also added the interested party before returning to the episode of the bathtub while the financial prosecutor's office was interested, during the year 2017, in several cases mixing the Parisian president. “I was in my room, he came and he put all the papers in a bathtub, it set fire to the room, I was not looking at the documents, it was meeting papers, he lit the fire”said Hicham. Nak would then have sought to recover private and intimate videos filmed by cameras installed in his apartment at all costs, some of which concerned the Emir of Qatar.
Political-financial “explosive” documents finally entrusted to Tayeb Benabderrahmane, a Franco-Algerian lobbyist, and sentenced a few weeks later to the sentence in Doha for espionage. A spell also feared by Hicham to believe his statements. “Nasser was in Qatar, he told me we have to talk to each other, do you come to Qatar?” I tell him that I could not come right away (…) I understood that they were trapped, that they wanted to catch me there, he wanted to put me in prison. They tried to take me away three times, people (one of them is still an employee of PSG) came at the bottom of my home and wanted to force me to put me in a car. I was afraid, I started to shout. I knew that if I was going to Qatar, I was not going to come back ”. Note that the employee of PSG challenged him as a whole accusations by the voice of his lawyer but these new revelations are likely to animate the debates in the coming hours …
