According to the Swedish daily Expressen, the captain of the France team, Kylian Mbappé, would be the target of an investigation by the Swedish police for “rape and sexual assault”, after his visit last week to Stockholm.
The player’s entourage denounces “a slanderous rumor”. According to the Swedish newspaper Expressen, the French attacker is the target of an investigation for “rape and sexual assault”. Mbappé would be considered “reasonably suspicious” in this investigation, the lowest level of suspicion provided for by Swedish law. According to AFP, the player’s entourage is not aware of such a complaint.
Earlier in the day, another Swedish daily, Aftonbladet, published an article announcing that a rape investigation had been opened, without mentioning anyone targeted. Kylian Mbappé reacted on his social network X, denouncing “fake news”. The Real Madrid player protested, establishing a link between the Aftonbladet article and the hearing scheduled for Tuesday before a committee of the Professional Football League (LFP) in the financial dispute between him and Paris SG . The former Parisian striker is demanding 55 million euros in unpaid wages and other bonuses from his former club.
Circumstances still unclear
According to the daily Aftonbladet, Mbappé was on Thursday evening, October 10, with a group of people at the “Chez Jolie” restaurant, an establishment in the Swedish capital, before going to the “V” club, where they met other people. The rape was allegedly committed the same evening, “in the center of Stockholm”, according to a complaint that Aftonbladet claims to have consulted. “The police took up the complaint on Saturday after the woman sought treatment,” the newspaper added.
According to the prosecutor in charge of the case, “an investigation is underway into a crime which was reported on October 10 in the center of Stockholm”, without giving further details. The Stockholm police wished to “neither confirm nor deny” this information. According to photos published by Aftonbladet, the police were on Monday in front of the hotel where Mbappé and his entourage were staying.
The player’s entourage denies
Faced with the scale that this affair is beginning to take on social networks in France, the player’s entourage was keen to react firmly at the start of the evening in a press release sent to AFP: “today, a new slanderous rumor begins to ignite the web starting from the Swedish media Aftonbladet. […] These accusations are completely false and irresponsible, and their propagation is unacceptable.”
Before adding: “in order to put an end to this methodical destruction of (the) image (of Kylian Mbappé), all necessary legal actions will be taken to reestablish the truth and pursue any person or media involved in moral harassment and the defamatory treatment that Kylian Mbappé repeatedly suffers.”
After his non-call-up to the French team which had already caused Internet users to react, this new affair concerning the captain of the France team also risks causing a lot of ink to flow.
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