Benoît Kounkoud, 27, will appear in June during an appearance on prior admission of guilt (CRPC), a sort of French-style guilty plea. A 20-year-old woman accused him of trying to rape her "during an alcoholic evening in a nightclub in the 8th arrondissement" on the evening of January 30.
The player was placed in police custody for a few hours on January 31, three days after being crowned European champion with the French handball team against Denmark in Cologne. “These were false accusations, it’s a non-issue: partying with his friends, he pulled down and pulled up his pants,” his lawyer, Mario Stasi, told AFP. The right winger, trained at PSG, joined the Kielce club in the summer of 2022, where two other 2024 European champions play, pivot Nicolas Tournat and left winger Dylan Nahi. The prosecution will propose a sentence which will be approved or not by a judge during the hearing.