Mbappé to take legal action for libel over Swedish rape investigation
Allegations of rape against French footballer Kylian Mbappé are "totally false" and "a slanderous rumour", his representatives said on Tuesday after a Swedish prosecutor said a rape investigation had been opened without mentioning the France star's name.
Kylian Mbappé was “shocked” to see his name linked to a Swedish rape investigation, his lawyer told AFP Tuesday.
The France captain, however, is “at ease” because “he has done nothing wrong”, lawyer Marie-Alix Canu-Bernard said.
A Swedish prosecutor said Tuesday that a rape investigation had been opened without mentioning Mbappé, following media reports that the Real Madrid and France star was the suspect following a visit with friends to Stockholm.
Swedish newspapers Aftonbladet and Expressen, and public broadcaster SVT all reported that 25-year-old Mbappé was the target of the investigation, following his two-day visit to the Nordic capital last week.
Mbappé’s lawyer Canu-Bernard said the player was “not aware of the extent of the media frenzy, but is completely calm and does not understand what he could be accused of”.
“He is stunned to hear that it could concern him. He preferred to go to training and asked my office not to leave things as they are because it is impossible to let yourself be slandered and defamed in this way.
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