EN DIRECT – Procès de Benjamin Mendy: le témoignage terrible de la 2e plaignante, qui accuse Mendy de viol

The complainant states that Mendy again asked her to undress and then threw the phone on the bed. It was then that the player, according to her, threw her on the bed. She says she found herself “on all fours” (she reproduces the position after asking the interrogator if it was useful). “I really don’t want to sleep with you, I have to go,” she said repeatedly to Mendy, adding that Mendy was “pulling her butt towards him.”

The complainant says she followed Mendy at the time in an attempt to retrieve her phone. She clarifies, as reported by the Manchester Evening News, that Mendy used her fingerprints to unlock the bedroom and enter it, before the door closed behind them.

“I want my phone, I don’t want to sleep with you, I just want to leave,” she said, telling Mendy, who reportedly replied, “the door is locked anyway.” The player would then have asked him to undress, declaring: “I just want to look at you, I promise I won’t touch you”. The complainant says she again asked to leave. “I just want to watch you. You can’t leave anyway.”

The scene dates back to October 2020. The complainant explains that she and friends met Mendy and others at a bar. They were then invited to the player’s home for a party.

On the spot, the complainant explains that Mendy took her phone while she was using it, he accused her of taking photos. He then took the phone upstairs.

The testimony of the second plaintiff is broadcast in court. The woman, who accuses Benjamin Mendy of three rapes in the same evening, is present in court, where she will then respond to the cross-examination conducted by the player’s lawyer.

After a reminder of the facts relating to the testimony of the first complainant on Wednesday, several messages from this alleged victim are read in court. They were exchanged between the complainant and a friend. In one of them, she declares: “I have just been sexually abused, if that is the term.” In the following message, she specifies: “By Mendy”.

She adds in other messages that her only possibility of leaving the place is to call a driver. “I can’t get over it,” she said in another message. “Honestly, it was a perfect night. The next morning he absolutely wanted me and I kept saying no.”

On Wednesday, the testimony of a first complainant was broadcast in court. The alleged victim accuses Benjamin Mendy of attempted rape in 2018.

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The hearing was delayed due to the train workers’ strike which affected the arrival of several people.

Today’s hearing will concern the hearing of a second complainant, who accuses Benjamin Mendy of three rapes during an October 2020 evening.

Following the trial of Benjamin Mendy this Thursday. With, from 11:30 a.m. (French time), the hearing of a complainant for acts of rape which date back to October 2020. This young woman accuses Benjamin Mendy of three different rapes. They would all have taken place on the same night.

The complainants’ hearings are held in chronological order.

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While waiting for the next testimonies from the plaintiffs, the court was able to view the video recording of the story made by a first alleged victim of Benjamin Mendy.

She notably revealed a sentence that the French would have slipped to her during a joint evening in October 2018. “When he will not look, I will kidnap you.” A sentence that she then took as a joke.

The general public discovered the face of one of Benjamin Mendy’s alleged victims even in the early days of the trial. However, the 12 other plaintiffs have not yet spoken and remain anonymous, known only to justice.

Instead, several people already occupy a key position in this case, such as the prosecutor in charge of the prosecution and the two lawyers for Benjamin Mendy and Louis Saha Matturie.

In France, the passage of Benjamin Mendy in front of justice arouses a lot of curiosity and questions. But the footballer is not the only accused in this sad case.

Along with him, his friend Louis Saha Matturie is also being prosecuted. But beware, the co-defendant in the Mendy trial is not related to former Manchester United French footballer Louis Saha.

Started soon a little over a week ago, the trial of Benjamin Mendy continues before the Chester court. The 28-year-old French international is accused of eight rapes, one attempted rape and sexual assault by seven different women but denies all charges.

After the prosecutor’s opening statement describing the left side of Manchester City and the France team as a sexual predator, the trial saw a first complainant speak. Via a video recording, a first alleged victim told his version of the facts.