Overview
- The instruction judge followed the Nice prosecutor’s request to send both brothers to trial for rape and sexual assault, adding attempted rape specifically for Wissam Ben Yedder.
- Both men remain under judicial control until the hearing, which has not yet been scheduled by the departmental criminal court.
- The case stems from complaints by two young women after an encounter in July 2023 near Monaco, with the brothers placed under formal investigation later that summer.
- Wissam Ben Yedder denies the allegations, including during a confrontation with the complainants in May 2024.
- Recent judicial context includes a two-year suspended sentence in November 2024 with placement on the national offenders’ registry and a €90,000 fine in September 2025 for psychological violence; the 35-year-old currently plays for Sakaryaspor in Turkey’s second tier.