Me Canu-Bernard also indicated that she was going to “file a complaint for slanderous denunciation (…) because it is impossible to allow yourself to be slandered and defamed in that way”.
The Swedish prosecutor’s office announced on Tuesday that it was carrying out an investigation into rape after the visit of Kylian Mbappé and his entourage last week to Stockholm, without however naming any names, with the Swedish media affirming that the star is at the heart of the investigations.
Mbappé “is not aware of the extent of the media outpouring, but is completely calm and does not understand what could be blamed on him, assured Me Canu-Bernard. He is stunned to hear that it could He preferred to go and train and asked my office not to leave things as they are, because it is impossible to let yourself be slandered and defamed in that way. which we will file a complaint for slanderous denunciation”.
The lawyer, however, said she did not know whether the investigation opened in Stockholm for rape targeted the Real Madrid striker, as indicated by the Swedish daily newspapers Aftonbladet and Expressen. According to Expressen, the 2018 world champion is considered “reasonably suspicious” in this investigation, the lowest level of suspicion provided for by Swedish legislation.
“We read the press. The Stockholm public prosecutor’s office issued a press release but it does not allow us to know whether it is Kylian Mbappé who is targeted. I therefore have no information allowing me to confirm whether he is is indeed acting on a complaint filed against him,” explained Me Canu-Bernard.
