According to France 24, PSG right back and Morocco captain Achraf Hakimi has been ordered to stand trial on rape charges in France. Hakimi was first accused in two thousand twenty-three by a woman who was twenty-four years old at the time. An investigative judge ruled in February of this year that he would face trial, following recommendations from public prosecutors. Hakimi appealed that decision, but today a Paris appeals court denied his appeal, clearing the way for the case to proceed to criminal court.

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