A former butler has denounced the PSG boss for psychological violence and working conditions contrary to human dignity

Hicham Karmoussiformer Moroccan butler of the patron of Paris Saint-Germain, Nasser Al-Khelaifi, filed a complaint in Paris in the past few hours against his former boss for “masked work” AND “harassment”the France Presse agency learned this Friday from a source close to the case.

In this denunciation, Karmoussi, 48, denounces the occult work, work as a foreigner without a work permit, moral harassment, psychological violence, threats and working conditions contrary to human dignity.

“Hicham Karmoussi worked for years without a contract or residence permit for Al-Khelaifi at an unsustainable pace”his lawyer, Antoine Ory, told AFP.

For a source close to the PSG boss, Karmoussi is a “criminal” That “In recent weeks he has tried again to blackmail” to Al-Khelaifi.

The latter had declared to L’Equipe a few months ago: “Justice will have its way, I don’t have time to talk about these petty professional criminals.”

“There is no coincidence, this is part of the will, given that Nasser Al-Khelaifi is a well-known person, to do business to try to obtain undue advantages”, they reacted. Renaud Semerdjian AND Francesco SzpinerPSG president’s lawyers, threatening to go to court in the event of “disclosure of information about the private life” of their client or third parties.

Former professional tennis player like Al-Khelaifi, Karmoussi says he began assisting the Qatari in the mid-2000s and has worked for him “full-time” since 2011, the year in which his employer took over the leadership of the PSG, without an employment contract and living in his house.

His working and living conditions with Nasser Al-Khelaifi have “deteriorated” since 2015, he adds.

The Moroccan also specifies that on 12 October 2017, in the report requested by the Swiss judicial authorities of the BeIN Sports headquarters in Boulogne-Billancourt, in the preliminary investigation for obtaining the broadcasting rights for the 2026 and 2030 World Cups, Al-Khelaifi urgently asked him to “clean up the house” to hide any evidence of violations.

Karmoussi would have “kept” at the request of his employer “a USB stick with many concluded contracts” with Jerome Valckeformer secretary general of FIFA, and “burned documents”.

The Qatari employer finally gave him a contract between 2018 and 2020, according to the complaint.

Karmoussi has previously testified as a witness in the investigation into the conditions for the assignment of the 2022 World Cup. According to his lawyer, he did not testify in the investigation into the PSG confidential leaks, in which several former PSG employees were accused in 2022 or that they were close to Al-Khelaifi, and now in conflict with him.

A preliminary investigation was also launched in mid-January for hidden work against the PSG and Nasser Al-Khelaifi after a complaint presented, according to L’Equipe and Le Monde, by another former adviser.

Source: AFP