Manchester City defender Benjamin Mendy charged with rape.

Reported by L'Equipe.

In total, the 27-year-old Frenchman is charged with nine crimes, including seven counts of rape against six different women..

The next preliminary hearing in the case of the star football player will be held on March 11.

Note that Mendy himself has not yet had the opportunity to plead guilty or declare innocence..

Benjamin Mendy is accused of rape: what is known Clubmate and competitor in the position of Ukrainian Oleksandr Zinchenko is accused of seven cases of rape for five women. The latest crime concerns the new applicant and is said to have been in July of this year.

At the end of August 2021, a police investigation began against a footballer on suspicion of four cases of rape and one case of sexual assault between October 2020 and August 2021.

Mendy was suspended from training with the Citizens, and then taken into custody and placed in prison. Later, two more cases of rape were reported..

The trial was supposed to start on January 24, 2022, but now, given the appearance of another likely victim, it has been decided to postpone the trial to June 27, 2022. At a preliminary hearing on January 7, 2022, the footballer was released on bail.

Mendy has been with Manchester City since 2017. During this time, he spent 49 matches in the " In the club, Benjamin was a competitor of the Ukrainian Oleksandr Zinchenko as a left back.

Also on account of Mandy 10 fights in the jersey of the French national team.