What is known about the alleged investigation against Mbappé for rape?

At the beginning of this week, several Swedish media began to report that the French footballer from Real Madrid Kylian Mbappé was being investigated for rape in Swedenwhere he spent a few days recently.

The footballer and his representatives have flatly denied the accusations, calling them “fake news” or “trap”. Some French media have reported that the footballer had a “consensual” relationship in Stockholm, while from Sweden they maintain that The footballer is a “reasonable suspect”. This is all that is known about the alleged investigation against Mbappé.

Mbappé’s visit to Sweden

Mbappé and a group of friends, including the French footballer Nordi Mukiele, They traveled to Stockholm for a two-day staybetween October 9 and 11, as reported Le Parisian.

The footballer and his friends They stayed at the Bank Hotela luxury but discreet establishment located in the center of the city, and on the second night, the 10th, they went to a VIP nightclub, called V Club, which is closed for private events to which girls chosen by his physique, adds the information.

There, the Real Madrid footballer and his friends would have met several young women who accompanied them back to the hotel. Already at the hotel, Mbappé, 25, and one of the young women would have maintained a sexual encounter “without any ambiguity” on both sides, points out the French media.

However, the Swedish tabloid Aftonbladet published this Monday that the authorities were investigating a rape at the hotel where the footballer stayed in the center of Stockholm, although It did not directly point to Mbappé as being investigated.

Yes, another Swedish media did it, expresswho stated that same day that the French striker was the one investigated for the reported rapeto which the status of “reasonably suspicious” was attributed, considered “the lowest degree of suspicion,” this tabloid clarified.

The Swedish Prosecutor’s Office, for its part, He has only acknowledged that he has initiated an investigation for an alleged rape that occurred in Stockholm last week, but without mentioning Mbappé at any time.

French media talk about a “consensual” relationship

This Thursday, the French newspaper Le Parisian has reported that Mbappé had “a happy and consensual relationship” with a woman in Stockholm, with subsequent telephone messages that would prove it.

The footballer has messages sent by the woman hours after leaving the hotel where he was staying with “a very positive tone”, adds the Parisian newspaper, whose information was confirmed separately by RMC Sports.

This same newspaper has added that, given the silence of the Swedish authorities and the complainant’s lawyer, It is not certain that the young woman with whom the player alleges he had a consensual relationship is the one who reported the footballer.

Mbappé talks about ‘fake news’ and his lawyer about “cheating”

Mbappé is in full judicial conflict with his previous club, Paris Saint-Germain, from whom he demands 55 million euros for non-payments. This Tuesday the joint appeals committee of the French Professional Football League (LFP) was due to meet for an appeal presented by the Parisian team against a ruling that ruled in favor of the forward. That is why the player himself and his surroundings have pointed out the coincidence in the time of the release in light of this information and the LFP meeting.

“Fake news! It’s already becoming predictable, as if by chance on the eve of the hearing”Mbappé published following the first information about the rape investigation.

One of the footballer’s lawyers, Marie-Alix Canu-Bernard, wondered this Wednesday if the player is being the victim of a “trap.” “When such a serious complaint is made, and the media echoes it in real time, when it involves such a famous figure throughout the world, questions arise. Has he been set up? I am not drawing conclusions of that kind, I don’t know. I just wonder about the moment and the way it was done,” he told BFMTV.

Canu-Bernard pointed out that, despite the security and privacy that always surrounds the player in his private life and in his few escapades of this type, “someone knew he was going to Stockholm” and that is why he was photographed by a paparazzi and a tabloid. (Aftonbladet) quickly posted the images. “As by chance,” the lawyer questioned, the same newspaper published a report which stated that a complaint had been filed.

For the lawyer, the real-time media coverage that is being seen in this case is also surprising, especially considering that In Sweden the secrecy of the case is absolute. “The prosecutor’s statement says nothing. Ipso facto, it was not the courts that leaked this information, nor the police. They strictly maintain secrecy,” he asserted.

“Since nothing happened – and if it is indeed him because there were many in Stockholm – and to the extent that there are 10,000 cameras in a hotel, so much the better. As we have seen in other recent stories of athletes abroad, thanks to the cameras and to the hotel hallways “we can know exactly what happened or didn’t happen.”he expressed.

He did not rule out, however, that if the “media frenzy” and the veiled accusations persist without quickly shedding light on the true facts, the player has to be interrogated by Swedish investigators.

The lawyer maintained that despite everything the player is “very calm” because there is a sanitary cordon around him to protect him from these setbacks of notoriety and because he knows that he did nothing. But it is equally shocking for a 25-year-old young man to be implicated in an accusation of this type. “For months he has been the object of a campaign of denigration and attacks on his image,” he also criticized.