OM did not win their case against Mourad Boudjellal. The club claimed 500,000 euros following the episode of the true-false takeover by Mohamed Ayachi Ajroudi in 2020.
The sequence is still very present in the memories of the side of Marseille. While the results were slow in coming for owner Franck McCourt, rumors of a takeover by a certain Mohamed Ayachi Ajroudi surfaced in the summer of 2020. The guarantee provided by Mourad Boudjellal, author of media releases supporting the so-called redemption then suggest that all this is very serious. But Olympique de Marseille is not for sale and the club will take the matter to court. Without result since the civil court of Marseilles did not condemn the two defendants.
As confirmed The Team this Thursday, the courts ruled on March 3 and refused to allow OM to receive the 500,000 euros they were claiming for a ” massive disinformation campaign ” aiming to ” weaken ” the club. The court justified its decision by explaining that the strategy employed by Mourad Boudjellal in the media was “not not necessarily the most suitable“, but that no” faulty character could not be demonstrated. The former RC Toulon boss claimed to have been “cheated” by Ajroudi.
Boudjellal reminded of his responsibilities
The court also challenged the idea put forward by OM that the defendants had had the ” manifest aim of destabilizing and weakening the club“. Mourad Boudjellal was nevertheless called to order by the magistrates who considered that he had ” acted in full knowledge of the facts and on his own initiative “and that he should have” in any event, verify Mr. Ajroudi’s assertions and the reality of the project mentioned before making statements in the press, on his initiative« .
