Benjamin Mendy, defender French Manchester City, was arrested this Thursday provisionally, accused of four rapes and one sexual assaultl that would have taken place between October 2020 and August 2021, according to the English police.
“Mendy was placed in provisional arrest, pending his appearance in Chester court on Friday, August 27”, explained from the Cheshire Police Force, which reported that the victims would be three people over the age of 16.
For its part, the club suspended the player pending the investigation and his coach, Josep Guardiola, decided “not to give an opinion until it’s all over. “
Mendy arrived at City in 2017 during the summer pass market, from Monaco and in exchange for 70.5 million dollars, which made him the most expensive defender in history at the time.
The value of your token was not reflected in the field, as had several injuries and some scandalous facts in recent times, like when His Lamborghini Avenador SVJ was seized, worth more than 500,000 euros ($ 587,000), at the end of 2020, for not having a driver’s license or insurance.
Mendy is not the first player professional in being accused of rape. For example, in Argentina, the former Independent Alexis Zárate has been detained since July 3, 2020 after being a fugitive from Justice for a sentence of six and a half years in prison for sexual abuse.
Others who received complaints at the international level were French Loïc Remy, then Queens Park Rangers player, although released on bail following the indictment of a 39-year-old woman for a gang rape.
Likewise, the Portuguese star Cristiano Ronaldo ended in an out-of-court settlement with a former American model, Kathryn Mayorga, who accused him of raping her in 2009 in a Las Vegas hotel room.
In that line, Neymar ended his case for alleged rape filed in the Courts of Rio de Janeiro, but his compatriot Robinho ended, for another reason, sentenced to nine years in prison by a Milan court for the gang rape of a 23-year-old Albanian girl, when the Brazilian footballer was a member of the Rossonero.
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