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The trial of Benjamin Mendy, prosecuted for eight rapes, continues in England, Thursday August 18, with the first testimonies of the complainants. The point with Maëlys Septembre, correspondent for France Télévisions in the United Kingdom.
After a first recorded testimony, and broadcast on Wednesday August 17, a second plaintiff comes to court. “It is a highly anticipated testimony that will be heard by the jurors today, that of the woman who accuses Benjamin Mendy of three rapes on the same evening, in 2020, on the occasion of a party in his mansion of the suburbs of Manchester (United Kingdom)”reports journalist Maëlys Septembre, in duplex from London (United Kingdom), Thursday August 18.
The testimony will be all the stronger as she is the first plaintiff “to be physically present at the bar”to directly confront the footballer. “She will answer the prosecutor’s questions, then those of the French footballer’s lawyers. Yesterday, it was through a video recording that the jurors learned of a first testimony”, continues the journalist. The complainant described the footballer “like having a predatory gaze”, adds Maëlys Septembre. The international is as a reminder accused by seven women of eight rapes, an attempted rape and a sexual assault.