Kheira Hamraoui is set to return to full training at PSG for the first time since iron bar attack

Kheira Hamraoui is set to return to training with the Paris Saint-Germain women's team a month after she was dragged from a car and beaten on the legs with an iron bar.

Her team-mate Aminata Diallo, who witnessed the attack and was detained for 35 hours by police before being released without charge, is also due to return to full training this week.

Hamraoui, 31, has not played a match since October 31 and has been recovering after the attack by masked men on November 4 that left her legs cut and bruised. The police investigation is still ongoing.

Diallo, 26, who was driving them home from a team meal, was arrested on suspicion of organising the assault. They play in the same midfield position and are direct rivals for a starting place.

She vehemently denied the allegation, calling it a 'perfectly artificial dramatisation' and was released from custody without charge.

A reconciliation meeting between the two players was held by PSG last week in which they agreed they would play together again, paving the way for this week's return to team training.

Their return was confirmed by Didier Olle-Nicolle, the team coach, who insisted they weren't immediately ready to step back into the team.

'I consider them to have been injured for the last month, we need to leave them time to come back physically and mentally,' he was quoted by L'Equipe as saying.

In a further twist in the story, it emerged a telephone SIM card being used by Hamraoui on the night of the attack was registered in the name of former Barcelona defender Eric Abidal.

Last month, lawyers for Abidal's wife Hayet issued a statement claiming he had admitted to an affair with Hamraoui and divorce proceedings had been initiated. Married since 2007, the couple have four daughters and a son.

Abidal took to Instagram to beg his wife for forgiveness, writing: 'Whatever your decision, you will remain in my eyes the woman of my life, and especially the mother of our wonderful children.

'I deserve this humiliation even though it kills me alive. Thank God, God willing one day you will forgive me.'

French sports paper L'Equipe released details from the police on how the attack took place, detailing how Diallo drove Hamraoui to and from a team meal in a Toyota Corolla provided by the club, dropping off another player afterwards - Sakina Karchaoui - before the attack began in Chatou, Yvelines.

'My attacker hit me with an iron bar several times. I saw that he was mainly targeting my legs and I was trying to protect myself with my hands,' Hamraoui told police.

'At that time, I didn't see a weapon. They immediately start yelling: "Open the door! Open the door!" The one on my side grabbed me and pulled me out of the vehicle.

'Before, he grabbed a rectangular iron bar that he had hidden in his pants or under his sweater.

'He gave me a first blow from the first moments of the assault to force me out of the cabin. I fell on the road and then on the right side of the road.

'My attacker hit me with an iron bar several times. I saw that he was mainly targeting my legs and I was trying to protect myself with my hands.

'The scene lasted several minutes, it seemed long to me. Aminata told me it was faster. I think the two individuals fled because cars were coming into the street.

'They started running in the direction of the traffic. We quickly lost sight of them. I think a car should be waiting for them nearby.'

Hamraoui also referred to hearing the term 'you like to sleep with married men' during the assault, a detail confirmed by Diallo who was being 'detained' by the second stranger throughout the attack.