Former Arsenal defender has revealed a crazy run in he had with friends of Samir Nasri who he feared were going to kidnap him and tase him.
Nasri and Gallas were once Arsenal teammates as well as international ones, but they enjoyed a tense relationship starting all the way back in 2008 when Nasri sat in Thierry Henry’s seat on a team bus.
The tension was made worse when Nasri made comments about Gallas the defender did not agree with and he explained a bizarre incident in 2009 where he felt he was in danger of being tasered.
‘What you need to know is that I was staying at the hotel with my family,’ said Gallas on French TV RMC.
‘I was with my cousins for a meal, it was the eve of a gathering of the French team.
‘At the end of the meal, I went out of the hotel and some people approached me and wanted to talk with me.
‘Initially I did not want to, then I recognised a person who was often with Samir at the Arsenal training ground.
‘A few days before, we had had an altercation about comments that he may have made about me, and I did not like them [the comments].
‘This person wanted us to talk and wanted me to see Samir, who was in a car further away so I got ready to follow him – but my cousin, who is a policeman, told me in creole not to follow him.
‘At the same time, I glanced inside and I saw someone crouched down with a bag.
‘In the bag, there were Tasers. I didn’t know why.
‘But luckily I was with people that day, because I do not know what could have happened.’
It is only Gallas’ word that this story actually happened, but the retelling of it stunned the audience and the fellow pundits on RMC.
Fellow former footballers Emmanuel Petit and Franck Le Bouef listened looking quite shocked as Gallas told his story.
There is no evidence, other than Gallas’ word, that Nasri was involved in any plot to have his teammate tasered.
The incident alleged to have taken place back in 2009 and despite the lack of evidence, Gallas’ story is a compelling one.
The former Arsenal man is widely known to have fallen out with Nasri over Thierry Henry’s spot on the French team bus.
The Sevilla midfielder supposedly took the seat which Gallas regarded as a sign of disrespect from his young team-mate.
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