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Accused of rape by a woman according to the Swedish press, the captain of the France team announced that he had had a sexual relationship, which he considers consensual, during his stay in Stockholm. In particular, he would have written messages supporting this version, according to “le Parisien” and RMC Sports.
The mystery surrounding the rape complaint supposedly targeting Kylian Mbappé in Sweden remains thick this Thursday, October 17. But part of the veil is lifted on the stay of the Blues star in Stockholm, from Tuesday 8 in the evening to Friday, October 11 in the morning. According to information from Parisianconfirmed by RMC Sport, the striker of the France team and Real Madrid did have a sexual relationship with a young woman during this escapade. In the mind of Kylian Mbappé, this relationship was agreed.
According to the Parisianthe footballer would have elements tending to support this version. Kylian Mbappé would notably have written messages sent by this young woman a few hours after her departure from the hotel room where the sexual relationship took place, on the night of Thursday October 10 to Friday October 11. These messages “very positive tone”according to the daily, would tell “the story of a happy meeting and a consented relationship”. Enough to explain, according to RMC, that “in the mind of the 25-year-old, she cannot be the complainant who filed a rape complaint with the Swedish authorities”.
And for good reason: nothing indicates that the complainant is the author of the messages sent to Kylian Mbappé. Although the Swedish prosecutor’s office confirmed on Tuesday that it was carrying out an investigation into rape after the footballer and his entourage visited Stockholm, no names were mentioned. According to Swedish media, the football star is nevertheless at the heart of the investigations. After publicizing his trip to the Swedish capital, two tabloids, The evening paper et The Expressclaim that the French attacker is the target of a rape investigation. The public television channel SVT also reports this suspicion.
As of Monday, after initial information on this investigation, Mbappé denounced a «fake news» on social networks, making a link with the hearing concerning his financial dispute with PSG which was held on Tuesday in Paris. Kylian Mbappé is “stunned” to see his name cited in connection with a rape investigation, but he is “serene” car “he has nothing to reproach himself for”declared Tuesday the lawyer of the captain of the France team, Me Marie-Alix Canu-Bernard. Me Canu-Bernard also indicated that she would “file a complaint for slanderous denunciation […] because it’s impossible to allow yourself to be slandered and defamed in that way”.
