The situation started to get complicated for Paul Pogba's brother. A judge ordered provisional imprisonment for Mathias Pogba after being implicated in the blackmail of the Juventus midfielder.

In this tangled conflict, four other men are also involved, who would have demanded 13 million euros from Paul in exchange for protection. Three of them have also ended up in prison, while the fourth has not yet appeared before the judge.

They have all denied the charges of kidnapping and blackmail, but they have admitted to pressuring the footballer. They also claim to be suffering coercion, threats, and violent attacks from unidentified groups. Two of the accused today, identified as the K. brothers, were assaulted and one of them was shot in the hand last August.

Paul Pogba had filed complaints for extortion both in Italy and France since he was intimidated in March at his childhood neighborhood in Roissy-en-Brie, on the outskirts of Paris, where he had been brought by childhood friends.

In the presence of two armed hooded men with rifles, they demanded 13 million from Paul. For months, this group of acquaintances supposedly pressured and harassed both the French international and his inner circle (his mother Yeo Moriba and his agent, Brazilian Rafaela Pimenta).

The investigation became convinced that Mathias Pogba, Paul's older brother, mediated in that extortion, something he has denied. Mathias decided to make the matter public with a strange video at the end of August, where he talked about "surprising revelations" about his brother and Kylian Mbappé.