Two men were sentenced today to three and four years in prison by French justice in relation to the robbery at the house of Ángel Di María, near Paris, in March 2021 when the Argentine player was a member of PSG.
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Two women and two men have appeared before the Nanterre court (west of Paris) since Tuesday for “organized group robbery” at Di María’s house in Neuilly-sur-Seine, a wealthy suburb of the capital.
The event took place on the night of March 14, 2021, when Di María was playing a Ligue 1 match with PSG against Nantes in the Parc des Princes.
A woman acquitted and conditional prison for another
The court acquitted one of the two women and sentenced the second to six months in prison for having helped and harbored the two men. The four defendants also appeared in court for “criminal association of criminals.”
In the robbery, forty luxury watches, jewelry and cash stored in a safe installed in a dressing room were stolen, with damage estimated at around 500,000 euros.
His wife and two children, inside
According to the investigation, at least one thief broke into Di María’s home, through a terrace on the third floor, when the player’s wife and their two children were inside without any of them noticing it.
The location of several telephone lines, the presence of identical vehicles, several days before the events, identified thanks to video surveillance images, established that the robbery had been prepared by the criminals, who knew the place well.
According to the player’s lawyer, Clémence Witt, this robbery caused “a particular moral damage” because “it is part of a context of systematic robberies of international footballers when they are on the field” generating “a constant concern, that of being, with his family , An objective”.
Robbery to Marquinhos the same day
On the same day as the robbery of Angel Di Maria, during the same match, another was committed at the home of the family of Marquinhos, PSG captain, in Chatou, also west of Paris.
In this case, two men were sentenced in January to seven years in prison and another to five years in prison, three of whom were suspended on probation. A third man was released.
