Brentford star Yoane Wissa due in court after woman ‘almost blinded him’ in ACID attack and tried kidnapping daughter

BRENTFORD prima Yoane Wissa is owed successful tribunal to look a pistillate who allegedly astir blinded him successful an acerb attack.

The striker joined the westbound Londoners from French nine Lorient successful 2021 for £8.5million.

And helium became the Bees' grounds Premier League goalscorer erstwhile he struck against Manchester City past week.

Nottingham Forest made a £22million bid for the DR Congo planetary yesterday, which Brentford are poised to reject.

But Wissa, who has besides been linked with Arsenal, is present astatine the centre of a proceedings that began connected Tuesday.  

The proceeding is owed to past 4 days, and helium is expected to be aft missing the archetypal day.

The tribunal astatine Vannes, adjacent Lorient successful northwestern France, heard a pistillate threw acerb into Wissa's look earlier seeking to kidnap his newborn daughter.

The woman, present 36, allegedly attacked different pistillate successful Vannes the pursuing time successful July 2021 earlier kidnapping HER baby.

The kid was aboriginal recovered unharmed.

The woman, named lone arsenic Laetitia P., faces up to 30 years successful jailhouse for attempted murder, kid kidnap and attempted kidnap.

Wissa needed an cognition to safeguard his eyesight.  

He posted a representation connected societal media aboriginal that period showing scars connected his face.

The 28-year-old's lawyer Karim Morand-Lahouazi said: "Yoane is inactive suffering the after-effects of this attempted kidnap and attack.

"He has done everything since past to amusement that helium is fine.

"He is besides trying to execute to the champion of his quality successful his mundane job.

"And nowadays helium and his woman consciousness unafraid successful England.  They consciousness they are harmless from danger.

"Thankfully helium did not suffer his eyesight, and it was lone acknowledgment to his absorption that his girl was not taken away.

"He was signed disconnected enactment for 10 days, but you don't conscionable spell backmost into grooming connected time 11.

"He needed a important clip to recover. Things were not casual for him astatine the commencement of this matter.

"He volition be the proceedings connected 2 days."