The English justice has announced that the French defender of Manchester City, in pre-trial detention for three months, was now charged for six rapes and sexual assault.
Le Monde with AFP
The charges for the French international defender of Manchester City Benjamin Mendy, 27, have fallen on Tuesday, November 16: two new rapes are criticized by the English justice to the player, who must be judged at the end of January. The Crown Prosecution Service (Crown Prosecution Service) announced that Benjamin Mendy, in pre-trial detention for three months, is now charged for six rapes and sexual assault committed between October 2020 and August 2021.
Another man, Louis Saha Matturie, 40, unrelated to the former Footballer Louis Saha and whose links with Mendy are not clearly established, also saw his file linge. It is also criticized for six rapes and sexual assault between March and August 2021. The two men were summoned Wednesday before the Stockport Court, while the trial must start on January 24. They are currently incarcerated and have seen their requests for provisional release be refused several times.
The case started at the end of August when the Manchester City club had announced the player’s suspension without further explanation. English justice then quickly announced that the player had been placed in pre-trial detention after being accused of four rapes – including a clerk a few days earlier, while he was on parole – and sexual assault, by three women whose women A minor.
These first facts would have been held at his home of Prestbury, in the Cheshire. British justice did not give more details on the new facts that are reproached for it, but the number of complainants is now four, all ages over 16 years old.
This new development feeds the uncertainty around the player’s career, straightened for four years, first by injury and now by this judicial procedure. When he arrived at Manchester City, where he remains a year and a half contract, he was one of the great French and global hopes at the left rear position. Formed in Le Havre, revealed in Marseille and spent a season by Monaco, he had become the most expensive defender of history in 2017 when Citizens did not hesitate to pay 52 million pounds (nearly 60 million euros. to focus on its services.
2018 World Champion
An amount he has unfortunately never justified, spending more time with the infirmary to heal his knees and muscle problems than to type in a balloon, even if he is part of the World Champion group In 2018 in Russia with the blues (ten selections).
His life outside the ground has not always been exemplary either, the ruthless English tabloids relevant to the fall of 2020 of the seizure of his Lamborghini, worth more than 500 000 euros, which He led without permit or insurance. In this case, he pleaded guilty and was sentenced to just over 1,000 euros fine.
These new charges made on Tuesday occur as his lawyer announced his intention to request the annulment of charges against him in the coming days. Mendy also had to know if he plead guilty of the first charges. If he pleads not guilty, he incurs life. Even if such a sentence remains unlikely, it would be likely to spend several years behind the bars and that would sign the immediate end of his career.