French international Benjamin Mendy accused of two more rapes

Published on : 11/16/2021 – 2:33 PM

The charges are piling up for Benjamin Mendy. The French international defender Manchester City has been charged with two more rapes and will appear in court on Wednesday (November 17th), the Crown Prosecution Service, in charge of prosecution in England, announced on Tuesday.

Benjamin Mendy, 27, now faces six counts of rape and one of sexual assault.

Another man, Louis Saha Matturie – unrelated to ex-French footballer Louis Saha, and whose ties to Mendy are unclear – was also charged with two more rapes, as well as sexual assault . He is also charged with six rapes and one sexual assault.

The allegations against Benjamin Mendy would have taken place between October 2020 and August 2021, while those for which Louis Saha Matturie was indicted go from March to August 2021.

The two men were summoned to court in Stockport on Wednesday, as the trial is due to start on January 24. The two men are currently in prison and have had their requests for provisional release repeatedly refused.

Suspended by Manchester City

Benjamin Mendy was remanded in custody at the end of August. His club, where he has been playing since 2017, had suspended him a few minutes before the police announced his referral to justice.

Four women are behind the complaints against the two men, all over the age of 16.

To recruit Benjamin Mendy, revealed in Marseille and spent a season by AS Monaco, City had spent 52 million pounds (about 60 million euros), making at the time the young French left-back the most expensive defender of the story.

But his career has since been punctuated by injuries, like his cruciate ligament rupture in 2017, forcing Mendy to spend more time treating his knees and muscle ailments than kicking a ball.

The French international had also made the cabbage of the tabloids in the fall of 2020 when his Lamborghini was seized, worth more than 500,000 euros, which he was driving without a license or insurance. He had pleaded guilty and had been sentenced to a fine of just over 1,000 euros.

With AFP