Hamraoui case

[9][10] Hamraoui joined Paris Saint-Germain Féminine (PSG) for the second time in July 2021, from FC Barcelona Femení, taking a position in the starting line-up.

[12][13] Diallo was also in Spain for some of the time Hamraoui was in Barcelona, spending 18 months on loan at Atlético Madrid Femenino;[11][14] the two were friends and had gone on holiday together in this period.

[13] The club did not initially mention that an attack took place; Hamraoui was not fit enough to play in a match on 9 November 2021, with PSG saying she was not on the squad list for "personal reasons".

The assault becoming public news was suggested to negatively affect the team, which lost an important game by a wide margin after it broke.

Teammates had known about the assault since the day after it occurred, but started to request moving lockers further away from Hamraoui once it was public, with some telling the club that they would not feel comfortable playing with her.

[13] She was taken to the police station in Versailles; while being escorted to an interview room, an officer offhandedly asked her if she had heard of Tonya Harding – an American figure skater who was involved with an attack on her rival, Nancy Kerrigan, very similar to the one suffered by Hamraoui.

In March 2023, Mavacala was charged with organised extortion by the French police based on his involvement in recruitment by the PSG women's team.

[20] Diallo was still in police custody when the theory that she had planned the assault to take Hamraoui's place in the PSG and France teams was first published in the press; the intrigue of the case, its similarity to that of Harding and Kerrigan, and the connection to a wealthy football club meant the story entered the global news cycle shortly thereafter.

[22] The terms of her supervision initially included not leaving the country but, in January 2023, Spanish club Levante UD Femenino controversially announced that they had signed Diallo until the end of the 2022–23 season.

Levante were second in the Spanish league behind Barcelona at the time, and their manager was Jose Luis Sanchez Vera, whom Diallo had worked with at Atlético Madrid.

[21] Levante declined an extension option for Diallo, and she left to join Al Nassr in the Saudi Women's Premier League in 2023.

[23] Hamraoui's contract with PSG expired at the end of the 2022–23 season and she chose to join Club América of the Liga MX Femenil, considered one of the league's biggest signings,[16] popular there due to her success with Barcelona.

[24] Independent journalist Romain Molina [fr], who is known for writing multiple exposés about sexual harassment in women's football, wrote shortly after the assault was made public that "so many people [would] want to take revenge on [Hamraoui] for matters of private life that we no longer know really where to look."