When discussing the situation of Wissam Ben Yedder, RMC journalist Daniel Riolo recalled that an indictment was not synonymous with guilt, revealing that he himself was indicted for defamation.
Daniel Riolo knows something about it, the world of football does not have to condemn a person indicted by the courts before a trial. The RMC journalist explained that he himself was indicted for defamation, when the situation of Wissam Ben Yedder was mentioned in theAfter Foot this week. Accused of rape, attempted rape and sexual assault by two women and indicted with his little brother on August 10, the French international started Ligue 1 with AS Monaco.
“ The indictment is not a culpability, it is a very worrying drift. I have known and I am indicted. I’m not guilty and the trials go pretty well in general, I come out cleared. The indictment period is just that we investigate and you are heard. A lot of people think you’re guilty. Everyone is free to complain. Afterwards, we defend ourselves and, afterwards, there is a judge “, launched the journalist who studied law.
Attacked by Deschamps and Galtier
Daniel Riolo then took the example of the Benjamin Mendy affair. ” You can’t not wait “, he launched. The left-back 2018 world champion was first imprisoned in the North of England, before being tried on 8 charges of rape, an attempted rape and a sexual assault and being declared, unanimously , not guilty of 6 rapes. At a second trial, he was acquitted of the last two charges on July 14.
For his part, Riolo has been sued in recent months by Didier Deschamps and Christophe Galtier. The coach of the France team filed a complaint in March when the RMC Sport polemicist had called him a liar and manipulator, about Karim Benzema’s package before the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. Galtier, he attacked Riolo and Romain Molina, who revealed the alleged Islamophobic and racist remarks of the coach then in post at OGC Nice.
