French Manchester City defender Benjamin Mendy (27) has been charged with an additional rape, it was learned during his appearance Wednesday, December 22 in an English court.
Facts that would have taken place in July
World champion in 2018, Benjamin Mendy is now targeted by seven counts of rape on four women and one count of sexual assault on a fifth.
This seventh charge of rape concerns a new complainant, for acts which allegedly took place in July of this year. The previous facts with which he was accused extended between October 2020 and August 2021.
In pre-trial detention since the end of August, the footballer appeared on Wednesday for 40 minutes in front of the Crown Court in Chester (north-west of England).
At the same hearing, another man, Louis Saha Matturie, 40, unrelated to former footballer Louis Saha and whose ties to Mendy are not clearly established, also appeared. He is also charged with six rapes and one sexual assault between March and August 2021.
Trial date postponed without fixed date
The two men were remanded in custody in a Liverpool prison pending trial, postponed sine die Wednesday after being originally scheduled for January 24.
Trained in Le Havre, revealed in Marseille and spent a season with Monaco, Mendy had become the most expensive defender in history in 2017 when the Citizens had not hesitated to pay 52 million pounds (about 60 million euros) to secure his services.
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When he arrived at City, where he had a year and a half left on his contract, he was considered one of the great French and world hopes as left-back. But the career of the now 27-year-old player has been hampered for four years by injuries, before being hampered by this legal process.
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