The French international footballer Franck Ribery, who has been linked with a move to Chelsea this summer, is alleged to have flown the 17 year-old prostitute Zahia Dehar to Germany for his birthday present last April.
Zahia has admitted to police that she was paid £1,500 a night to sleep with the three top class French International footballers as well as other rich clients, and she told reporters about Ribery’s birthday treat.
She said: ‘I was Ribery’s brithday present.
‘Franck approached me in a Paris club. He booked me and flew me to Munich to celebrate his 26th birthday.
‘He made reservations at a luxury hotel in Munich. We had sex and he paid me. I was a lovely little present, wasn’t I?’
‘The first time I did it was also to celebrate a man’s birthday.
‘I’ve always looked older than I am, and when I began to understand that I was pleasing to men, I thought: “Why not take advantage of it?”
‘I have had encounters with all kinds of people from the world’s of sport and showbiz. They proposition me and I make myself available.
‘But I have no pimp and I don’t give the money I make to anyone.
‘I only have paid sexual relations with people that I choose to. No one forces me to do anything and when I don’t want to do something, I don’t.
‘I consider myself to be a call-girl, but not a prostitute.’
She has told investigators that she lied about her age to Ribery, but the judge is still undecided on whether to bring charges against him or not. A ‘judicial source’ was quoted in the Mail as saying: ‘Judge Dando has yet to decide if Ribery is to be prosecuted but it remains a possibility.
‘Ribery has admitted having sexual relationship with the girl over several months, but denies knowing she was underage.
‘This could seriously damage his career, and the same applies to the other players if they are found to have been knowingly sleeping with an underage prostitute.’
But it seems that he will not be facing charges as long as Zahia maintains that he didn’t know she was underage.
And I want to know why no-one has ever bought me a birthday present like that!
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