Overview

• On August 1, the Nanterre public prosecutor filed formal requisitions to send Achraf Hakimi to trial on a rape charge, and the investigating judge must now decide whether to accept them.
• Hakimi has remained under judicial supervision since his March 2023 indictment for allegedly raping a 24-year-old woman at his Boulogne-Billancourt home.
• The accuser detailed non-consensual kissing, groping and forced intercourse before managing to flee and report the assault to police.
• If the judge orders a trial and he is convicted, Hakimi could face up to fifteen years in prison under French law.
• His defence calls the allegations an extortion attempt and plans to exhaust all appeals, while the victim’s lawyer said she welcomes the requisitions with immense relief.