PSG Laugh Last as Ex-Premier League Star Loses 7-Year Case Against Ligue 1 Giants

The former Parisian player, who went through the PSG between 2016 and 2018, had attacked the club for moral harassment. He was denied his requests.

PSG laugh last as ex-Premier League star loses 7-year case against Ligue 1 giants

Former French international Hatem Ben Arfa has seen his claims against Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) dismissed by the Court of Cassation, France's highest court.

The judicial battle between Hatem Ben Arfa and Paris Saint-Germain is officially over. After having ordered the club of the capital on appeal to pay him 100,000 euros of salary reminders plus a symbolic euro in March 2023 for moral harassment, the former attacker today 38 years old had filed a new appeal in order to obtain an allowance of 7,7 million euros. Already rejected by the Pruds, "HBA" has this time seen the Court of Cassation not recogn…

While he accused the PSG of moral harassment and managed to have the club sentenced in 2023 before the Paris Court of Appeal, Hatem Ben Arfa was dismissed from his applications before the Court of Cassation. The end of a case that had lasted for more than six years.

Hatem Ben Arfa was a PSG player for two years (2016-2018). Escaped from the group during his second season, he had denounced acts of moral harassment before the court. But the PSG won in this case. The adventure of Hatem Ben Arfa did not go as planned. Arriving at the PSG during the summer mercato 2016, the former Lyon player will have participated in only 32 matches all competitions for four goals and five assists. In his second season, he will…

The Court of Cassation finally ruled in favour of Paris Saint-Germain in the dispute against Hatem Ben Arfa, a former offensive milieu of the club (38 years old) as revealed by L-Equipe and Foot Mercato. Accusing the PSG of moral harassment after having been removed from the first team for more than a year, Ben Arfa sees thus all his remedies exhausted, the court having not recognized at any time the existence of moral harassment on the part of …