Paris (France) (AFP) – The investigating judges responsible for investigations targeting PSG for moral harassment of Kylian Mbappé have dismissed the case, drawing the consequences of the withdrawal of his complaint, and thus finishing judicially settling his tumultuous divorce with the capital club.

Published on: 02/10/2026 - 19:16

Kylian Mbappé took his former club to court in May 2025, leading to the opening of a judicial investigation. He then withdrew his complaint in July 2025.

At the end of May 2026, the investigating magistrates dismissed the case for lack of having established "sufficient charges", said one of the sources close to the case.

According to this source, the magistrates noted that the footballer had “withdrew his complaint” and had “made it known publicly in the press”. In their eyes, it was therefore “impossible to investigate”. Indeed, “there would be no sense in questioning the witnesses and defendants” when “the complainant himself does not support them”.

These accused persons “could only refer to this withdrawal” to avoid answering questions, the magistrates anticipated, according to the close source.

Asked by AFP, Me Pierre-Olivier Sur, lawyer for the footballer now at Real Madrid, did not wish to comment. Neither does PSG.

Other lofts in the viewfinder

The complaint from the captain of the France team, filed in May 2025, for moral harassment and attempted signature extortion, targeted the practice of the loft, where Mbappé had been placed in the summer of 2023.

This practice, recurring in football clubs, consists of excluding players from the squad and is already the subject of several investigations in Paris.

Another procedure was thus entrusted to the Brigade for the Repression of Personal Delinquency (BRDP), after the complaint filed in May 2025 by player Kheira Hamraoui targeting PSG.

PSG is not the only club accused. As early as January 2024, the union of professional footballers UNFP had filed a complaint against X, based on a list of around fifty players placed in lofts (but who were not involved in the preparation of the complaint).

The UNFP accuses of moral harassment and extortion the various clubs setting up these lofts to deliberately sideline certain players in order, according to the union, to "maximize the price of transfers".

What do players blame their clubs for? Concretely, during the summer transfer period, governed by the collective agreement for professional footballers, clubs can place the players they want to part with in a loft, a sort of shelving adapted to the grass: no more training with the professional group, no more travel, no matches...

This sidelining, then considered abusive, pushes players to extend their contract at the club or, conversely, to accept a transfer - a way for their employer to separate from them while ensuring they receive compensation - or even to terminate their contract.

Mbappé's complaint was filed at the end of May 2025 after his tumultuous separation with his former club: the player left PSG free at the end of his contract in 2024, to join Real Madrid.

In parallel with this criminal procedure, the main match was mainly played out at the industrial tribunal around a monster financial dispute relating to significant compensation for unpaid salaries, bonuses and leave that Kylian Mbappé claimed.

Kylian Mbappé had also seized 55 million euros as a precautionary measure from PSG's accounts. This seizure was finally deemed abusive in September 2026 by the Paris Court of Appeal, which ordered the player to pay 60,000 euros to the club, according to a source close to the case.

However, on the merits, Mbappé won his case: on December 16, 2025, PSG was ordered to pay nearly 61 million euros, and decided not to appeal this decision, which had become final.

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