STOCKHOLM.- Kylian Mbappé He can now turn the page after his October getaway in Stockholm and focus on his career at Real Madrid, after the Swedish justice system announced on Thursday the closure of the rape investigation revealed by the local press.
The captain of the French team, who is going through a difficult period on and off the playing field, sees the threat of being summoned by Swedish justice fading.
The country’s prosecutor’s office had opened an investigation on October 15 into an alleged rape committed in a hotel in central Stockholm, without ever mentioning the player’s name, although the local press claimed that the Real Madrid star was being investigated.
“My assessment is that the evidence is not, by itself, sufficient to move forward, taking into account the fact that the complainant does not wish to continue cooperating with the investigation,” said the prosecutor in charge of the case, Marina Chirakova.
Previously, the prosecutor had already given details about the reasons for the closure of the investigation.
“According to my conclusions and based on what has already appeared in this case, any new element, including the interrogation of the person in question (investigated), will not change the state of the evidence at this point,” the prosecutor told the AFP.
In her statement, the prosecutor does not mention the French striker and explains that the person affected by the investigation “was not notified of the suspected crime.”
“We have carried out a large number of interrogations in this investigation,” he told AFP, adding that “there was other types of evidence, apart from the interrogations.”
“I will not make any comments,” Petra Eklund, the complainant’s lawyer, told AFP.
The events investigated occurred on October 10 in a luxurious hotel in Stockholm, where Mbappé and his entourage were staying, according to the Swedish newspapers Aftonbladet and Expressen.
The local press points out that the Real Madrid attacker was listed as “reasonably suspicious” in the preliminary investigation, the lowest level provided for by Swedish legislation.
The complaint, according to Aftonbladet, was filed on October 12 after the alleged victim sought medical attention.
“It doesn’t concern me”
Mbappé spent the night of October 10 with a group of people at the Chez Jolie restaurant, an establishment in the Swedish capital, before attending the “V” club, as revealed by Aftonbladet.
In that night establishment, the player and his entourage privatized a room to which around thirty people were invited.
When the case broke out, Mbappé denounced “fake news” on his social networks, establishing a link between the news that appeared and his financial dispute with Paris Saint-Germain.
In an interview broadcast on Canal+ on Sunday, Mbappé addressed the case in public for the first time and assured that he was not involved in it.
“I was surprised (…) These are things that come unexpectedly and you don’t see them coming. I haven’t received anything, no call. I’ve read the same thing as everyone else. The Swedish government hasn’t said anything. It doesn’t concern me,” He explained about it, adding that he did not know the identity of the complainant.
“I would simply go,” he declared when asked what he would do if summoned by Swedish justice.
“We have to let it go, let justice do its job and when it’s finished everyone will settle their accounts,” he added.
