It’s a trial that has been gripping the media and the public for more than a month now. Since mid-August, the former footballer Benjamin Mendy spends his days in the dock near Chester, in the suburbs of Liverpool. The 28-year-old Frenchman is accused by 7 different women of 8 rapes, attempted rape and sexual assault for facts that allegedly took place between October 2018 and August 2021. He is not the only one worried in this affair since Louis Saha Matturie (no relation to footballer Louis Saha) is accused of being his accomplice.
The start of the trial made it possible to learn more about the personality of Benjamin Mendy, but also about the mansion he lives in and in which the complainants were allegedly attacked and raped. A place away from the neighborhood and in which many parties took place during which it seems that a well-known teammate of the Frenchman was present. Indeed, during last Friday’s hearings, the name of Jack Grealish, England international and Manchester City player, just like Mendy at the time, was pronounced by one of the young complainants. The latter would have been present at a party where rapes were committed by the two men accused in this case.
Jack Grealish allegedly had sex with one of the complainants before fainting
In detail, the 17-year-old young woman at the time explains that she went to a “private party” at Benjamin Mendy’s. As other complainants have indicated before her, the latter saw her phone confiscated, without her being notified beforehand. An evening during which she drank a lot, as well as consumed cocaine before being raped by the 2018 world champion, according to her. “He almost turned me into a position where he was going to have sex with me (…) I was in a position where my chest was down, my legs behind me and he just put it in”, she says. She then went to join a friend who was allegedly raped by Louis Saha Matturie. “She told me she had slept with Jack (before her rape)”, recounts the complainant, who indicates that it was a consensual relationship with Jack Grealish. According to her, the latter would then have fainted during the evening.
For the time being, Jack Grealish has made no comment on this case and Benjamin Mendy, as well as Louis Saha Matturie continue to deny all the charges against them.
Benjamin Mendy remains presumed innocent of the charges against him until the final judgment.