Thursday, December 12, 2024, 09:50
“I never felt worried,” said Kylian Mbappé days before his 50th goal in the Champions League, in an interview on Canal Plus France, when he was asked about the investigation by the Swedish Justice in Stockholm for an alleged sexual assault. The Real Madrid striker, with moments worthy of mention against Atalanta until his muscle injury, acknowledged that there was “a lot of noise” in a case that this Thursday, the Prosecutor’s Office of the Scandinavian country has filed for not finding “sufficient evidence.”
The “lack of evidence” puts an end to a topic in which his name was never included in an official document, and it was the Stockholm press that mentioned him so that some would rush to condemn him. The Parisian will take legal action against those who have tried to damage his image. “If Justice summons me, I will simply go,” he added. It won’t be necessary. “I consider that the evidence is not sufficient to continue the investigation, so it is closed,” the prosecutor in charge of the case, Marina Chirakova, said in a statement. The Swedish organization maintains that it concludes the procedure after a month of investigations in which it has not found a punishable act.
Bondy’s crack finally removes one of the issues that for some time now has caused him to live in a media hurricane that did not benefit him at all. From the economic scandal with PSG – which demands that PSG pay 55 million euros in salaries and bonuses -, his non-inclusion with the France team in the last games, or that rumor of the Swedish court case, they put too much extra-sporting noise in a figure that avoids stones on the road to exploit a version that has been seen at random since he wore the Chamartín jersey.
That controversial trip to Stockholm occurred in October, during a call-up with the French national team from which he was absent, and since that moment he has not returned to Didier Deschamps’ plans. This week he scored his 12th goal of the season for the whites. The striker, who has received criticism for expressing his social or political opinions, assured that “no one can blame me for worrying about my country.”
In Stockholm he was accompanied by several friends and visited restaurants and nightclubs, according to Swedish tabloids, which published a photo of him leaving a venue. According to Swedish public television SVT, among other media, they pointed out the player as the author of an attack, while the Swedish Police carried out a search in the same hotel where the French star stayed, according to images broadcast by media in the Nordic country.
As published this October by the French newspaper Le Parisien, the player’s entourage acknowledged that the athlete had sexual relations with a woman that night, but defended that they were “consensual.” The published information also indicates that the Madrid player has text messages exchanged with this young woman after she left the hotel and, therefore, after their intimate relationship. The messages would have been “positive” between the two, the aforementioned newspaper publishes. In the mind of the 25-year-old player, his surroundings point out, according to the Parisian newspaper, the woman with whom he had sexual relations cannot be the person who filed a rape complaint with the Swedish authorities.
