Real Madrid star Kylian Mbappe has vehemently denied a “fake news” report claiming that police are investigating a rape at a Stockholm hotel where he was staying with friends.
The footballer visited Sweden last week and stayed at the Bank Hotel in the city center. On Thursday, he dined at Chez Jolie restaurant, visited the V nightclub, and returned to his hotel with his entourage.
Shortly after Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet reported that police were investigating a rape at the hotel on Thursday night, Mbappe took to social media to dismiss the allegations as “fake news.”
He suggested that the report was a deliberate attempt to discredit him amid his ongoing legal battle with his former club PSG over £46 million in unpaid wages and bonuses.
Investigators and a forensic unit were reportedly at the alleged crime scene on Monday, according to Aftonbladet. The newspaper reported that the alarm was raised when the woman sought medical attention at a local hospital.
Mbappe left Sweden on Friday. The prosecutor and Stockholm police declined to comment on the rape investigation, stating that they could neither confirm nor deny such a case.
Aftonbladet reported that no suspects have been named in the case.
