It is a trial that delivers new testimonies each week, each more disturbing than the next. It has now been more than 15 days since the highly publicized trial of Benjamin Mendy started near Chester in England, in the suburbs of Liverpool. A trial obviously not like the others since it involves a football star, world champion in 2018 with the France team and who played for the Manchester City club, one of the best teams in the world.
Last August, the 28-year-old player was arrested by the English police and a year later, 7 different women accuse him of eight rapes, an attempted rape and a sexual assault for acts which allegedly took place between October 2018 and August 2021. After the testimony of the first five complainants, the jury was able to view that of the sixth alleged victim yesterday. A young woman who would have been invited to go to an evening at Benjamin Mendy, by Louis Saha Matturie (no link with the footballer Louis Saha), the one who is presented as the footballer’s sidekick.
All I remember is waking up and seeing Ben on me
The plaintiff therefore went to the luxurious residence of the sportsman, who had been the subject of much attention during the trial. Tired after a few glasses of alcohol, she goes to bed in a bedroom on the top floor of the mansion, as she tells it, before bursting into tears. “All I remember is waking up and seeing Ben on top of me”, she lets go. The young woman in her twenties explains thatBenjamin Mendy would have penetrated her when she explained to him that she had her period. The next morning, the one who is nicknamed “Woman 6”, to keep her anonymity, leaves without having spoken to her supposed attacker. “I don’t remember anything, it doesn’t look like me at all”she says.
A new particularly incriminating story for Benjamin Mendy, who for his part, like Louis Saha Matturie, denies all the charges against him.
Benjamin Mendy remains presumed innocent of the charges against him until the final judgment.