Greece: Ruben Semedo accused of rape of a minor

Olympiakos defender Ruben Semedo was arrested Sunday by Greek police after a 17-year-old girl accused him of rape, a judicial source learned on Monday. The 27-year-old Portuguese was brought before an Athens prosecutor on Monday.

The teenager said Semedo lured her into his home before raping her, along with a still wanted 40-year-old foreign national. The player reportedly met the girl at a bar in the seaside town of Oropos on Saturday and then drove her to her home in Glyfalda, on the outskirts of Athens, where she said she was raped.

Convicted of attempted murder in 2018

According to Semedo’s lawyer Stavros Georgopoulos, the player “denies the accusation. He claimed that the complainant was 19 years old.” The Portuguese had been convicted in 2018 of attempted murder for which he had been sentenced to 5 years in prison while playing in Villarreal.

He avoided this sentence in exchange for a ban on entering Spain for eight years under an agreement reached in 2020. He had also been fined 46,000 euros. Olympiakos, where Ruben Semedo has been playing for two years, has not communicated on the subject.