Saudi Arabia Coach Hervé Renard Targeted in Online Sextortion Scheme

The scammer would have befriended Hervé Renard, former coach of the Moroccan national team, on the internet. He was posing as a young Lebanese woman, and would have filmed him in embarrassing situations, reports Assabah. Once the current coach of Saudi Arabia was filmed, the young man revealed his true identity to him.

He threatened Hervé Renard to broadcast the filmed scenes if he did not pay him 100,000 dirhams. The French technician did not give in. He filed a complaint against the blackmailer. The judicial police managed to identify and arrest the author of the sextortion. During the search of his home, the investigators confiscated a computer and three cameras.

Questioned, the suspect confessed. On the orders of the prosecutor of the king near the court of first instance of the city, he was placed in pre-trial detention in the local prison of Oued Zem.