Kylian Mbappé is "stunned" to see his name mentioned by the media in a rape investigation opened in Stockholm, but remains "calm" because "he has nothing to reproach himself for", the lawyer of the French national team captain, Marie-Alix Canu-Bernard, declared last night.
The lawyer explained that she wanted to "file a complaint for defamation because it is impossible to allow yourself to be defamed in this way."
The Swedish prosecutor's office has announced the opening of a rape investigation after Kylian Mbappé and his entourage visited a Stockholm hotel , but has not named anyone . Swedish newspapers have, however, reported that the player is at the centre of the investigation .
Mbappé "is not aware of the extent of the media wave, but he is completely calm and does not understand what he could be accused of," the lawyer said. The player is "stunned" to see "that this story would involve him and preferred to go to training, asking his lawyers not to let anything pass ." The lawyer specified that she "does not know" whether the investigation opened in Stockholm involves the Real Madrid striker as stated by the newspaper Expressen.
According to the Swedish newspaper, which yesterday dropped the bombshell news, the footballer who just transferred from Paris Saint-Germain to Real Madrid is being investigated - with evidence that is not overwhelming, although "reasonable" - in the case of the rape of a woman in the center of Stockholm. And in particular in the hotel where Mbappé was staying last week after missing the call-up to the national team for the Nations League match against Israel, in Budapest.
The first information was released by another Swedish newspaper, Aftonbladet, which announced the opening of an investigation into the events that took place in the Bank Hotel, where the player was staying together with a group of people including his former teammate at PSG, Nordi Mukiele, on loan at Bayer Leverkusen this year, and his personal assistant. Mbappé's name was not mentioned, but he immediately attracted the attention of the media around the world due to the coincidence of his presence at the site of the alleged events reported by a woman. The woman was also reportedly forced to seek medical attention after the violence she suffered and before filing a complaint.
