The sports news of Manchester City is still marked by the imprisonment of one of its footballers, who occupied the position of left back and who a few months ago had his career interrupted by a scandal away from the pitch. Benjamin Mendy has captured the bad news around the club ‘citizen‘ And, in the last hours, the English press points out that it could also affect one of the team’s most prominent footballers, nothing less than the most expensive signing of this summer in England, Jack grealish.
Grealish and Mahrez, possible witnesses of the night
According to the British newspaper in recent hours’The Sun‘, the midfielder could be questioned in the trial against Benjamin Mendy for what happened at dawn on August 23, when the French defender allegedly raped a 17-year-old girl at her home. The reason why the English midfielder would have to attend the trial is because he witnessed what happened that night, although he did not go to the home of his teammate and did coincide with him at the party prior to the events.
In addition to Jack Grealish, Riyad Mahrez was also at that party, who at the moment would not have been summoned as a witness to offer more details of what happened before the events that keep the defense in preventive detention. In theory, both would appear next November 15. It will not be before next year when the news of Manchester City ceases to be clouded by this scandal, and it will be in early 2022, on January 24, when Mendy faces the trial that determines whether or not he is guilty of the facts. .
“They started socializing at one site and continued at two different sites that night. Grealish and Mahrez did not return to Mendy’s house. Unfortunately, what started as a fun night at the club ended with some very serious accusations, “a source tells the newspaper.The Sun‘about what happened that night. Unfortunately, it is not the first time that Benjamin Mendy has been involved in such a case, since in addition to this he faces three other charges of rape from October 2020 to this same August, when, supposedly, the last one took place.