The Swedish Prosecutor’s Office announced this Thursday that it has closed the case opened against him for an alleged sexual assault on a woman during a visit by the player to Stockholm and has reported that the evidence is not sufficient to continue with the investigation, as advanced by the AFP agency.
“During the investigation, one person was identified as a ‘reasonable suspect’ of rape and two cases of sexual offense, but my assessment is that the evidence is not enough to continue and that is why the case is closed,” he said in a statement. prosecutor Marina Chirakova. The Prosecutor’s Office confirmed the opening of an investigation into an alleged rape on October 10 in a hotel in the center of Stockholm, but neither in a previous statement published in October nor in this Thursday’s does it mention the French player.
According to Swedish public television SVT, among other media that pointed to the player as the author of that attack, Mbappé had the status of “reasonable suspect”, the lowest degree of suspicion in the Swedish Penal Code, accusations that the French forward of Real Madrid denied and described it as “fake news.” In a recent interview with Canal Plus France, Mbappé said that he had “never” felt worried about the case, although he acknowledged that “there is a lot of noise” and that he had tried to concentrate on his work. “If Justice summons me, I will simply go,” he added.
Mbappé made that two-day trip to Stockholm, taking advantage of the fact that he had free time and that he had not been called up by the French team due to discomfort in the femoral biceps of his left leg, accompanied by several friends and visited restaurants and nightclubs, according to the Swedish tabloids. , who published a photo of him leaving a store. The Swedish Police carried out a search in the same hotel where the French star stayed, according to images broadcast by the media in this Nordic country.
