The echo is huge, but the certainties are thin. The rumor about Kylian Mbappé’s possible involvement in an alleged rape case last week in a Stockholm hotel is still just that: a rumor spread by Swedish newspapers and a public television station. The Swedish public prosecutor’s office confirmed the complaint alone, without a name. But the 25-year-old footballer Mbappé, world champion with the Bleus in 2018 and their captain, is such a big figure in his homeland, beyond sport, that just a vague report full of subjunctives fills all the French media.
