The mother of Paul Pogba says the Juventus midfielder is still recovering from his alleged extortion attempt.

Local police are now investigating the case, which has seen older brother jailed as part of the alleged plot.

"Paul is starting to recover little by little psychologically," Pogba's mother Yeo Moriba told Sept a Huit.

“This affair tormented him. He didn't tell us right away that he had been kidnapped. Nobody knew, his brothers weren't aware either."

Moriba also said of Mathias: “He was being threatened, he is not like that, I know him, I can swear.

“Before leaving for Guinea, I spoke with him once. I told him he shouldn't do the videos, but I felt he was taken aback.

“Mathias is nice. For me, my two sons are victims and that torments me. Mathias was manipulated, threatened… I'm worried about him, he's my son, he doesn't know about crime."