The turmoil created by Kylian Mbappé’s escapade in Sweden last week, while the France team was playing against Israel, has taken on a new dimension in recent hours. Out of all proportion to a sporting controversy. According to information from the Swedish newspaper Expressen, the captain of the Blues would indeed be the target of a complaint for rape and sexual assault.
If the situation remains very unclear at this stage, the facts denounced by the alleged victim would have taken place on the night of Thursday October 10 to Friday 11 in the hotel in downtown Stockholm where the ex-PSG striker was staying. , 25 years old, and several members of his entourage. The alleged victim first presented herself on Friday at a hospital in the Swedish capital to have possible physical injuries and possible psychological repercussions following the rape she suffered. Following this first step, she was heard the next day, Saturday October 12, by a police force with whom she filed a complaint, of which another Swedish newspaper, Aftonbladet, claims to have read.
This woman, whose age or nationality we do not currently know, would have designated Kylian Mbappé as her attacker, revealed Expressen on Monday evening. The captain of the Blues would at this stage be “reasonably suspected”, the lowest level of suspicion in Swedish criminal law, of rape and sexual assault. “The case is in the hands of a prosecutor,” the police spokesperson simply told Expressen.
Tuesday morning, Swedish justice confirmed the existence of a rape investigation, but without mentioning the name of the player. “Following the publication in the media (of information about a) suspected rape in Stockholm, the prosecutor can confirm that a complaint of rape has been received by the police” and that “an investigation” is underway. course, the prosecution said in a press release.
An open investigation
Following the denunciation of the alleged victim, an investigation was opened under the authority of a prosecutor and entrusted to a police force which traveled this Monday to the hotel occupied by the Real Madrid striker in order to collect the first testimonies and possible material elements (analysis of video surveillance images and possible DNA samples).
No precise information has yet filtered out on the complainant’s journey in the hours preceding the alleged facts. On the other hand, Kylian Mbappé’s schedule, during the evening of Thursday October 10, has already been documented by the local press. The ex-PSG star reportedly started the evening at a city center restaurant, Chez Jolie, where French-inspired cuisine is served. He was even photographed leaving this establishment in the company of three people: his bodyguard, his personal assistant who accompanies him and supervises him in his daily life, and his ex-PSG teammate Nordi Mukiele, on loan this season by the capital club at Bayer Leverkusen.
This small group would then have gone by taxi to the “V” club, a nightclub open that evening to the public, where Kylian Mbappé and his relatives would have spent part of the night. Before returning to their hotel. This was, it seems, not their first visit to the “V”. According to information from Aftonbladet, the world champion would have already spent part of the previous night, from Wednesday October 9 to Thursday 10, in this nightclub, of which he would then have privatized at least part of the premises.
The Real Madrid recruit, absent from the French team gathering for physical reasons, benefited last week from five days of rest granted by his new club. On Friday, he left Sweden to go to Corsica, where he spent the weekend before returning to training on Monday in Madrid.
Before his name was directly cited by the Swedish press as a possible suspect and as the rumor grew, Kylian Mbappé first chose to react in a few words, Monday afternoon, on the X network. “FAKE NEWS !!!! It becomes so predictable, the day before the hearing as if by chance,” wrote the Real Madrid recruit, referring to the hearing scheduled for October 15 before the joint appeals committee of the Professional Football League.
For PSG, Mbappé’s message is “a shame”
In the background, colossal financial issues since the former PSG player (from 2017 to 2024), is demanding from the Parisian club, his former employer, the payment of 55 million euros corresponding according to him to salaries and bonuses unpaid. Is Kylian Mbappé suggesting that PSG orchestrated a plot aimed at destabilizing it? “This message is a shame,” reacts the Parisian club. We will ignore it and keep our dignity.”
A little later on Monday afternoon, and perhaps in a more controlled manner, the KMB entourage attempted to contain the fire. “Today, a new slanderous rumor is starting to ignite the web from the Swedish media Aftonbladet,” it is written in a press release sent to AFP. These accusations are completely false and irresponsible, and their propagation is unacceptable.”
The player’s advisors then begin a counterattack. “In order to put an end to this methodical destruction of his image, all necessary legal actions will be taken to reestablish the truth and pursue any person or media involved in the moral harassment and defamatory treatment that Kylian Mbappé repeatedly suffers.” Contacted, Real Madrid did not wish to comment.
