Mathias, the brother to Juventus star, Paul Pogba, has accused the midfielder of paying at least €4 million (£3.5m) to a witch doctor who ‘neutralised’ Kylian Mbappe during Manchester United’s Champions League tie against Paris Saint-Germain in 2019.
Mathias was arrested a couple of weeks ago and is currently in custody in Paris over his alleged role in the blackmail plot involving Pogba.
The 37-year-old Mathias Pogba has denied his part in the attempted blackmail but has been accused of ‘extortion in an organised gang’ and ‘participation in a criminal association with a view to preparing a crime’.
Just yesterday, Friday, September 23, several pre-recorded video messages from Mathias surfaced online.
In one of the video messages, Mathias accused Pogba of paying for a witch doctor to put a spell on Paris Saint-Germain’s star-man, Mbappe for United’s Champions League tie against PSG in 2019.
Manchester United were defeated 2-0 in the first leg at Old Trafford and Pogba was red-carded during the game but staged a remarkable comeback in second leg in Paris, beating PSG 3-1, progressing to the quarter-finals.
“The turning point came with the World Cup in 2018, where Paul had more faith in the witch doctor than in God, entrusting the witch with a big task in order to help the French team win,” Mathias Pogba said in his video.
“The witch doctor would go on to tell Mam’s [an intermediary] that the job had already been done, and that was when Mam’s would start to be scared.
“After that, Paul continued with his witch doctor, notably in the Champions League to ensure that Manchester United would go through against PSG.
“At the request of Paul, the witch was told to neutralise Kylian Mbappe, who back then was on a rapid rise, far outstripping Paul’s fame.
“It was strange to see that during that match Kylian was a shadow of himself against a reserve side.
“The issue is that at the same time, Paul was doing everything he could to get closer to Kylian, as we could see in the media, supposedly liking him and calling him his friend, he would often call him, we would see them arm-in-arm
“It went so far that Kylian almost made it a condition for his PSG contract extension that the club would have to sign Paul, without knowing that behind his back Paul was engaging in witchcraft to sabotage his matches.
“That same witch doctor would go on to [say] that he had to stop the ongoing curse, at risk of destroying [Mbappe’s] career, keeping in mind that he was paid by the task, knowing that my brother, always close to his money, had not paid enough for a long-term job, and that the witch wanted to make him pay as much as possible,” he said according to Metro.