Kylian Mbappé, whom the media links to a rape investigation in Stockholm, “keeps the primacy of his explanations” for the Swedish justice system, in the event that it requests him, the French player’s lawyer announced to AFP on Thursday. .
“He maintains the primacy of his explanations, if necessary, to the Swedish justice system,” explained Me Marie-Alix Canu-Bernard, denouncing “firmly the media allegations suggesting that Kylian Mbappé spoke about the progress of his trip to Stockholm.
Thursday the newspaper “Le Parisien” wrote that the striker of the France team and Real Madrid “would have had sexual intercourse” during a “consensual relationship” with a young woman, which RMC Sports also confirmed .
The two French media argue that Mbappé has messages from the young girl, “with a very positive tone”, telling the story of a “happy meeting” suffering from “no ambiguity”, adds the daily in particular. However, there is nothing to confirm that the complainant in the rape case is not the author of these messages, specifies “Le Parisien”.
The Swedish prosecutor’s office announced on Tuesday that it was conducting an investigation into rape after the visit of Kylian Mbappé and his entourage last week to Stockholm, without however naming any names. Swedish media assure that the star is at the heart of the investigations.
The lawyer for the captain of the Blues told AFP on Tuesday that she did not know whether the investigation opened in Stockholm for rape targeted her client, as the newspapers “Aftonbladet” and “Expressen” claimed. The player’s entourage assured Thursday that they had no new information concerning the investigation opened in Sweden.
According to “Expressen”, the 2018 world champion is considered “reasonably suspicious” in this investigation, the lowest level of suspicion provided for by Swedish legislation.
