The end of the Swedish soap opera for Kylian Mbappé. The captain of the Blues sees the threat of a legal summons in Sweden disappear this Thursday, December 12, after the decision of the Swedish courts to close the investigation revealed by the local press.
The Swedish prosecutor’s office opened an investigation into rape on October 15 for acts committed in a hotel in the center of Stockholm without ever mentioning the name of the suspect, but the Swedish press claimed that the Real star was targeted.
“The evidence collected during the investigation is not, on its own, sufficient to continue the investigation, taking into account the fact that the complaining party no longer wishes to cooperate with the investigation,” indicated in its decision of classification without further action consulted by the AFP the prosecutor in charge of the case, Marina Chirakova. The prosecutor had previously outlined the reasons for closing the investigations.
“According to my conclusions, based on what has emerged in the case, it is that new elements, including the interrogation of the person (Editor’s note: targeted by the investigation), will not change the state evidence at this stage,” she told AFP. Without mentioning the name of the captain of the France team, she specifies that the person targeted by the investigation was “not notified of a suspicion of crime”.
“A large number of interrogations” carried out during this investigation
“We conducted a large number of interrogations as part of the investigation,” she further clarified to AFP, and “there were other types of evidence, apart from the interrogations, in this matter.” The facts that the courts were investigating took place on Thursday, October 10 in a luxury hotel in Stockholm, the Bank Hotel, where Mbappé and his entourage were staying, according to the Swedish tabloids Aftonbladet and Expressen.
The French attacker was considered, according to the press, to be “reasonably suspicious” in the preliminary investigation, the lowest level of suspicion provided for by Swedish legislation. According to Aftonbladet, a complaint was filed on Saturday, October 12 after the alleged victim received medical treatment.
In an interview with Clique broadcast on Sunday on Canal +, the star spoke of his surprise surrounding this affair. “I was surprised. I’m always surprised by the way. (…) I received nothing, no summons. I read the same thing as everyone else. The Swedish government has said nothing. I’m not concerned,” he replied, adding that he had “no idea” of the identity of the complainant. Contacted this Thursday morning by “Le Parisien”, the latter’s lawyer, Me Petra Eklund, did not wish to comment on the situation.
