Woman details three rape accusations against French player
The woman detailed that the French player tried to silence her after raping her three times
A alleged victim of Benjamin Mendy stated that the Frenchman tried to silence her after raping her three times in a room where the footballer took her deceived using his mobile phone.
"Don't tell anyone and you can come back here every night,"
The alleged victim said that she met the footballer and his friends during a night out near Mendy's house in October 2020 and agreed to go there afterwards.
While she was looking at her phone, Mendy grabbed it, accusing her of taking pictures, according to the young woman.
Then, she followed him to the house, to his bedroom, whose opening was activated by fingerprint. The door closed after them.
"Look, I want my phone, I don't know what you're thinking. I don't want to have sex with you," she recalled saying. The player's response, according to the woman: "Anyway, the door is closed."
Mendy forced her to undress and raped her three times in about twenty minutes, despite her repeated refusal. "I don't want to do this (...) I have to go," she narrated.
"My body was so tense, it hurt a lot," she related, saying that she had bled after these forced sexual relations. And she assured that after the rapes, Mendy had called her "shy", boasted of having had relations with "10,000 women" and had tried to silence her in exchange for her return in the following days.
"As if it were a privilege to come every night to do this with him," stated the young woman.
28-year-old French defender, suspended for a year by Manchester City, is facing eight rape charges, one attempted rape and one sexual assault against seven women.
The prosecution presented him as a "predator" who abused "vulnerable, terrified and isolated" victims.
Mendy denies the ten charges brought against him for events allegedly occurring between October 2018 and August 2021 at his house in Prestbury, Cheshire. AFP