“I have needed time to digest this shock.” Those are the words with which the actress Hiba Abouk has justified her silence since on February 27 the Prosecutor’s Office of the French city of Nanterre opened an investigation against her husband, the Paris Saint-Germain footballer Achraf Hakimi, 24 years old. , after receiving a report of rape by a woman of the same age.
The interpreter has broken her silence through a statement in El País in which she wanted to express her “state of mind” and “clarify in first person the erroneous information that is circulating,” she says. He acknowledges that “on certain sensitive topics or issues silence can be beneficial”, but that, a month after the event, he felt a “peremptory need” to explain himself, also for resuming his “personal, public and professional life in the least harmful and possible traumatic.
This event has turned his life upside down and that of his two children, whom he seeks to protect, above all else. During these weeks the actress has taken refuge in her friends and she has lived on horseback between Dubai where she was traveling when the news broke and Madrid. None of the athlete’s relatives has ruled on Hakimi’s judicial situation, but attention fell from the outset on the silence of the actress from The Prince.
“After making the decision to legally separate and stop living together, pending the divorce proceedings, who would have imagined that in addition to facing the well-known pain that a separation entails, and accepting the grief that the failure of a project entails, relative to whom I had given myself body and soul, I would have to face this ignominy”, he has written about the pain and the damage to his image that he has suffered.
Thus, the actress has made her position on the abuses clear and says that it only remains to “trust the good conduct of justice”, especially “given the seriousness of the accusation”. “It goes without saying that in my life I have always been and will always be on the side of the victims”, he assured.
