New damning accusations for Benjamin Mendy. Placed in pre-trial detention since the end of August, for four charges of rape and one sexual assault, the French defender was indicted on Tuesday with two new rapes and will have to appear, this Wednesday, again in an English court. .
With these new charges, the world champion with the Blues in 2018 is now targeted by six counts of rape and one of sexual assault. Facts which would have taken place between October 2020 and August 2021 and which would have been committed on a total of four women, including a 17-year-old minor, at the home of the former Marseille and Monegasque located in Prestbury (Cheshire)
Suspended by Manchester City, where he has been playing since 2017, in the wake of his imprisonment, Mendy saw his various requests for provisional release on bail being refused by the British justice. And it is not these new elements that will fix his case, while the side, who denies the facts, must pronounce, this Thursday, to say whether he pleads guilty or not guilty of the charges required against him.
If his trial has been set for January 24, it could be postponed, according to the English press, because of the new charges, including him and another man named Louis Saha Matturie (no link with the former footballer), indicted for similar facts, are the subject. In the meantime, Benjamin Mendy (27), who faces life imprisonment if he pleads not guilty, should remain incarcerated in the private prison of Altcourse in north Liverpool and sees the rest of his career register more than ever in dotted lines.
