Gianluigi Donnarumma and his then-pregnant girlfriend suffered a terrifying break-in in Paris in 2023, a court docket was informed.
The Man Metropolis goalkeeper and Alessia Elefante, whom he has since married and had a baby with, had been hit, sure and threatened with a knife after robbers broke into their flat.
The incident happened in Avenue Montaigne, one in every of Paris’ most well-known and splendid streets, with Donnarumma and his companion asleep on the time.
The keeper, 27, was then at PSG, and a Paris prison court docket is presently conducting a two-day listening to concerning the ordeal.
Donnarumma just isn’t anticipated to present proof however a witness assertion from him shed additional mild on what went on.
Court docket paperwork revealed how Donnarumma was woken by a person saying ‘shh’, earlier than he was hit within the face with a knuckle duster and threatened with a knife.
Gianluigi Donnarumma and his then-pregnant girlfriend Alessia Elefante had been hit, sure and threatened with a knife by robbers of their Paris flat in 2023 (pictured collectively in 2024)
The thieves left with keys to supercars, money, watches and luxurious purses after robbing Donnarumma and Elefante (pictured in 2024)
The person then mentioned: ‘The watches, the watches’.
As per court docket paperwork, Donnarumma replied: ‘I confirmed him the one on the dressing desk, an Audemars Piguet.’ These watches can have a worth price as much as lots of of hundreds of euros.
His companion informed investigators that she was additionally woken up by the thieves who attacked her and shouted: ‘The cash, the watches.’
She subsequently gave them a Cartier watch, jewelry and €2,000 (£1718) in money.
Elefante was then accosted for the code to a protected. Nevertheless, she revealed she did not understand it and mentioned it was empty anyway.
‘They acquired offended pondering that I used to be mendacity,’ she informed investigators. ‘They pulled me by the hair and one in every of them hit me on the thighs. I mentioned I used to be pregnant however they continued.’
Donnarumma did then give them the code to the protected, however as Elefante had warned, there was nothing in there.
The court docket was informed that the robbers left with keys to a Mercedes and a Lamborghini, money, watches and luxurious purses.
Police additionally added that the 4 robbers managed to get into the flat through the use of a ladder to climb onto the roof, earlier than they lowered themselves onto the balcony and broke in via home windows.
Two people which might be already in jail – Ilyas Kherbouch, a 21-year-old with not less than 11 prison convictions, and Khyan Mamouni – are accused of masterminding and ordering the theft from their cells. They each deny the fees.
Kherbouch, who escaped from jail in March and spent 13 days on the run, brought about a stir on the opening of the trial.
This got here when he insulted and threatened cops after they informed his brother to go away the court docket.
‘Come right here, you,’ he informed them. ‘What are you going to do?’
When warned that he might be expelled from the courtroom, he replied: ‘I couldn’t care much less. I don’t wish to be current on the trial. I don’t give a s***.’
Donnarumma, now 27 and at Man Metropolis, was enjoying for PSG on the time of the terrifying ordeal
Two of the robbers, who had been underneath the age of 18 when the incident occurred, have already been given jail sentences of three and 4 years respectively at a kids’s court docket.
One other defendant Moktar Diop, 24, admitted to participating however just isn’t accused of resorting to violence, whereas a fourth suspect died by suicide in 2024. He had beforehand admitted to being concerned however informed investigators he had come underneath stress from his accomplices.
Donnarumma and his companion’s legal professionals mentioned beforehand that they had been ‘nonetheless profoundly shocked’.
The trial continues.
