Former PSG and OM player, Fabrice Fiorèse experienced a particularly violent episode after hanging up his crampons. In 2012, three years after the end of his professional career, the former striker was the victim of a kidnapping from his home. A trauma to which he returned this Tuesday, November 10, during an interview with journalist Daniel Riolo.
Podcast guest Riolo ClubFabrice Fiorèse recounted the circumstances of this attack which occurred in front of his house in Salins-les-Thermes, in Savoie. Three hooded individuals targeted him after learning that he had just received a large sum of money following a real estate transaction.
“There are three of them, with shotguns. This is the survival part, I tried to defend myself. Above all, I wanted to protect my family who were inside the house. They lynched me on the ground, I felt like an animal. They pulled me and threw me from my car. I tried to fight back, to protect my family. Afterwards, they took me away”he said.
A former teammate behind the kidnapping
Forced into the back of his captors’ vehicle, the former Guingamp player finally managed to escape while the car was traveling between 60 and 70 km/h. “I broke the window with my shoes, I had boots on. I think it’s the survival instinct (…) I jump before arriving on the expressway where it would have been even more complicated”he explained. Injured and left to his own devices on the road, Fabrice Fiorèse then managed, not without difficulty, to stop a van to be taken to the hospital, then to the gendarmerie.
The investigation finally revealed that this operation had been ordered by Ghislain Anselmini, a former teammate of Fabrice Fiorèse in Lyon and a close friend of the victim. The former defender was sentenced to five years in prison for his involvement in this affair. Two of the kidnappers received ten years in prison, while an intermediary received a one-year suspended sentence. Another man prosecuted in this case was, for his part, acquitted.
