The uproar created by Kylian Mbappé’s escapade in Sweden last week, while France was playing against Israel, has taken on a new dimension in the last few hours. Out of proportion due to a sporting controversy. According to information from The Swedish newspaper Expressenthe Blues captain would in fact be the target of a complaint for rape and sexual assault.
If the situation at this stage remains very unclear, the facts reported by the alleged victim would have occurred on the night between Thursday 10 and Friday 11 October in the hotel in central Stockholm where the 25-year-old former PSG striker and several members of the team were staying. his entourage. The alleged victim presented himself for the first time on Friday at a hospital in the Swedish capital suffering from possible physical injuries and possible psychological repercussions following the rape he suffered. Following this first step, she was heard the following day, Saturday 12 October, by a police officer to whom she filed a complaint, which another Swedish newspaper, Aftonbladet, claims to have read about.
This woman, whose age or nationality we currently do not know, would have designated Kylian Mbappé as her attacker, Expressen revealed on Monday evening. The Blues captain 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.
On Tuesday morning, Swedish justice confirmed the existence of a rape investigation, but without naming the player. “Following the publication of information in the media about a suspected rape in Stockholm, the prosecutor can confirm that the police have received a report of rape” and that “an investigation” is ongoing, the prosecution said in a press release .
An open investigation
Following the complaint from the alleged victim, an investigation was opened under the authority of the Prosecutor’s Office and entrusted to the police force who went this Monday to the hotel occupied by the Real Madrid striker to collect the first testimonies and any material elements (analysis of video surveillance images and any DNA samples).
No precise information has yet filtered out on the complainant’s journey in the hours preceding the disputed facts. On the other hand, Kylian Mbappé’s program on the evening of Thursday 10 October has already been documented by the local press. The former 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 venue in the company of three people: his bodyguard, his personal assistant who accompanies him and supervises him in his daily life, and his former PSG teammate Nordi Mukiele, in loan this season from the capital club to Bayer. Leverkusen.
This small group would then go by taxi to the “V” club, a nightclub open to the public that evening, where Kylian Mbappé and his relatives would spend part of the night. Before returning to their hotel. This was not, apparently, 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 9 to Thursday 10 October, in this nightclub, of which he would then privatize at least part of the premises.
The Real Madrid player, absent from the French team’s meeting for physical reasons, benefited last week from five days of rest granted by his new club. He left Sweden on Friday for Corsica, where he spent the weekend before returning to training in Madrid on Monday.
Before his name was mentioned directly in the Swedish press as a possible suspect and as the rumor grew, Kylian Mbappé chose to react with 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 appeal commission of the Professional Football League.
For PSG, Mbappé’s message is “a shame”
In the background, colossal financial issues, given that the former PSG player (from 2017 to 2024), is asking the Parisian club, his former employer, for the payment of 55 million euros corresponding, according to him, to unpaid salaries and bonuses. Is Kylian Mbappé suggesting that PSG have orchestrated a plot to destabilize him? “This message is a disgrace”, reacts the Parisian club. We will ignore it and maintain 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 defamatory rumor begins to set the web aflame from the Swedish media Aftonbladet,” read a press release sent to AFP. These accusations are completely false and irresponsible and their spread is unacceptable.”
The player’s advisors then begin a counterattack. “To put an end to this methodical destruction of his image, all necessary legal actions will be taken to re-establish the truth and prosecute any person or media involved in the moral harassment and defamatory treatment that Kylian Mbappé repeatedly suffers.” When contacted, Real Madrid declined to comment.
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