The Defender of Manchester City, is referred to by seven charges of rape in four women and a charge of sexual assault on a fifth. He had been in detention since the end of August 2021.
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The French footballer Benjamin Mendy, accused of rape in the United Kingdom, was released on bail by British justice and placed under judicial review, Friday, January 7th.
The Defender of Manchester City, also world champion with France in 2018, is referred to by seven counts of rape on four women and a charge of sexual assault on a fifth. The facts would have been committed between October 2020 and August 2021. It was in detention since the end of August.
Suspended from Manchester City at the end of August
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. In November, the Prosecution increased with the suspicion of two new rapes.
Formed in Le Havre, revealed in Marseille and spent a season by Monaco, he had become the most expensive defender in history in 2017 when Citizens did not hesitate to pay 52 million pounds (nearly 60 million euros) to attach your services. When she arrived in Manchester City, however, he was one of the great French and global hopes at the left rear position.