Manchester City defender Benjamin Mendy has been charged with another rape charge. Reported by L'Équipe.
On Wednesday, February 2, a preliminary hearing was held in a Chester court, in which the football player was charged with one new count, their total number reached nine.
The hearing was attended by the co-defendant in this case, 40-year-old Louis Saha Matturi. He also faces new charges, bringing the number of alleged sexual offenses he is suspected of to ten (seven counts of rape and three counts of sexual assault).
The ex-football player of Milan received 9 years in prison in Italy for rape Football 27-year-old Mendy was detained in August last year. Then he was charged with raping four women over 16 years old between October 2020 and August 2021. The reason for the detention was the statement of a 17-year-old girl that the athlete had sexually assaulted her in August at his home in Cheshire. Later, the French athlete was accused of several more episodes.
The player has been in custody since August. After his arrest, Mendy asked the court to release him on bail three times, but all his requests were rejected. In early January, the world champion in the French national team was nevertheless released on bail.
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