09/01/2021 15:41
Clarín.com
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Updated 09/01/2021 3:41 PM
In 2017, Manchester City bought him for
$ 70 million from
Monaco, making him the most expensive defender in the world.
And a year later, in 2018, he lifted the cup at the World Cup in Russia.
Today,
Benjamin Mendy's
stellar past
is summed up inside a small cell at HMP Altcourse, a jail located on the outskirts of Liverpool.
Mendy was arrested last week after being charged with four counts of rape and one sexual assault, for which Justice issued his preventive detention.
"His family is going to be devastated," claimed the defense attorney.
But the court that was issued did not give rise to the payment of bail and the Frenchman will have to wait for his appointment with the court behind bars.
And according to what the English media are reporting,
she would not be having a good time there
...
The 27-year-old footballer, dressed in black pants and a red hooded jumpsuit, appeared in court in Chester, in the north-west of England, where the judge
ordered his admission to preventive detention
.
Mendy only spoke to confirm her name, address and date of birth.
From the outset, Manchester City licensed the footballer and put an internal team to work to investigate complaints about who was an important figure in Pep Guardiola's squad.
In addition, he made his law firm available to assist the Frenchman, who on September 10 will have a key audience for his future.
Mendy receives orders from Guardiola in a match for the FA Cup, on August 7.
Photo: AP Photo / Alastair Grant.
In
The Sun they
say that Mendy suffered a collapse when he learned that he would be transferred to Liverpool jail but the situation became even more difficult to accept
when he arrived at the prison
where he will spend at least another nine days.
According to the famous English tabloid
The Sun
, Mendy understood that he would be placed
in a VIP ward
, when in fact what his lawyers informed him is that he would go to the "Vice President" wing, with the acronym VP (vi pi, in English).
Hence the misunderstanding.
According to reports, the VP sector aims to protect the most vulnerable inmates of the prison population,
including suspected sex offenders
, who are kept as far away from the rest of the inmates as possible.
Benjamin Mendy, world champion with France in Russia 2018. Photo: Jorge Arciga / Notimex / dpa.
Mendy, whose salary at the City is
$ 125,000 a week
, thought he would be housed in a room with greater amenities when in fact he is surrounded by other convicts facing the same charges as him.
Prison staff explained that they were placing him there "
for his own safety,
" says The Sun.
And he adds, through witness testimony: "But maybe because he is French and his English is not very good, he misunderstood what they had said and thought they were taking him to a VIP wing for celebrities."
"He had a very difficult awakening when he saw the cell and realized who he was going to mix with", closes the report of the British media. An image difficult to accept for a millionaire footballer, world champion and in the prime of his life .
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Preventive detention for the French Benjamin Mendy, from Manchester City, after being accused of four rapes