Swedish prosecutors close rape investigation in which Mbappé’s name appeared due to insufficient evidence – Libération

The legal proceedings for rape and sexual assault which, according to Swedish newspapers, targeted the star of the France team and Real Madrid, have been closed, Swedish justice announced this Thursday, December 12.

The rape investigation, which, according to Swedish newspapers, targeted Kylian Mbappé, is closed in the absence of sufficient evidence, the Swedish prosecutor’s office announced this Thursday, December 12. While traveling in Stockholm last October, the striker of the France team and Real Madrid was named in the Swedish press as being “reasonably suspicious” in a rape case which allegedly occurred on October 10 in the hotel where he was staying. Throughout the case, the prosecution had not provided any information, either on the identity of the accused, or that of the complainant, and did not provide any details on the alleged facts.

“One person has been accused of rape and two sexual assaults on bases, but I believe that the evidence is not sufficient to continue the investigation, which is therefore closedsaid the prosecutor in charge of the case, Marina Chirakova, in a statement. The person concerned has not been notified of the accusation” who was targeting her, she adds.

According to information from the Swedish newspaper The Expresspartly confirmed by its competitor The evening paper and by Swedish public television, it was the French star who was targeted by this complaint for “rape and sexual assault”. The Real Madrid player denied and shouted at the «fake news»pointing to his former club with which he is in dispute, Paris Saint-Germain, as a potential instigator. Interviewed Sunday evening on Canal + in the show Cliquethe player had mentioned the affair: “I was surprised to have been involved by the press, I didn’t expect that even though of course I understood for a long time that there were unpredictable things that were going to come into my life. I have received no letter, no official complaint, he explained. Nothing. So I am not [aujourd’hui] not concerned. If I am summoned [par un juge ou la police]of course I would go. I have spoken several times since with the person I was with that night. I don’t even know if it’s her we’re talking about [dans l’affaire de violences sexuelles].»