During his appearance before an English court, the French defender of Manchester City was accused of a new rape. His trial above January 24 was repulsed.
Le Monde with AFP
The French defender of Manchester City Benjamin Mendy, 27, was charged with an additional rape, during his appearance in front of the Crown Court of Chester (northwestern England) Wednesday, December 22.
With this new charge, Benjamin Mendy, World Champion in 2018, is now targeted by seven counts of rape on four women and an indict leader of sexual assault on a fifth. This seventh expense of rape concerns a new complainant, for facts that would have occurred in July of this year. The previous facts that were reproached for him were between October 2020 and August 2021.
In pre-trial detention since the end of August, the footballer appeared for forty minutes. During this same audience, another man, Louis Saha Matturie, 40 years – unrelated to the former Louis Saha footballer – and whose links with Mendy are not clearly established, also appeared. It is continued for six rapes and sexual assault between March and August 2021.
Revolved trial
The two men were placed in pre-trial detention in a Liverpool prison while waiting for their trial, pushed back Sine Die after while he should take place on January 24th. Formed in Le Havre, revealed in Marseille then passed by Monaco, Benjamin Mendy had become the most expensive defender in history in 2017 when Citizens did not hesitate to pay 52 million pounds (about 60 million euros) for to attach your services.
When he arrived in City, where he left a year and a half contract, he was considered one of the great French and global hopes at the left behind. But the career of the player has been hampered for four years by injury, before being by this judicial procedure.