In its edition of this Wednesday 5 November, L’Observateur reports that the former Senegalese international El Hadji Ousseynou Diouf is being prosecuted for abandonment of family and non-payment of alimony. L’affaire l’oppose à son ex épouse, Valérie Bishop, et porte sur des arriérés s’élevant à près de 10 millions de francs CFA pour leur fille Keyla, née en 2008, chiffre la même source. (The case is between his ex-wife, Valérie Bishop, and his former wife, Valérie Bishop, and their daughter, Keyla, who was born in 2008, and their daughter, Keyla, who was born in 2008). Le quotidien du Groupe futurs médias (Gfm) adds that the ex-wife is also claiming 20 million in damages and interests for the injury suffered by the minor child. The divorce, pronounced on 12 July 2023 to the exclusive wrongs of El Hadji Diouf for injuries, had entrusted the custody of the child to the mother and fixed a monthly pension of 500 000 F CFA, in addition to the assumption of medical and school expenses, reimbobine le journal. According to the civil party, cited by Gfm, Diouf would not have respected its obligations, accumulating arrears from March 2024 to September 2025. The prosecution insists on the fact that he is “perfectly solvable”, disposant de revenus conséquents (advertising contracts, salary to the Senegalese Football Federation, locative revenues), The next hearing is scheduled for 5 December. The Tribunal examined the complaint, based on Article 351 of the Penal Code which sanctions the refusal to pay a pension alimentaire complète.
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