In pre-trial detention since the end of August, the world champion in 2018 is now indicted for six rapes and one sexual assault committed between October 2020 and August 2021.
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He appeared via video conference at Magistrates' Court in Manchester, northern England, for 45 minutes.
Wearing a cream-colored sweatshirt, Benjamin Mendy only spoke to express his identity.
At the same hearing, another man, Louis Saha Matturie, 40, unrelated to former footballer Louis Saha and whose ties to Mendy are not clearly established, also appeared.
He is also charged with six rapes and one sexual assault between March and August 2021.
Judge Margaret McCormack informed the two suspects that they would appear again Thursday morning in court in Chester (northern England) so that these new prosecutions are linked to those launched in August.
The trial is currently scheduled to start on January 24.
British justice has not given more details on the new facts which are accused of the footballer, but the number of complainants is now four, all over 16 years old.
Trained in Le Havre, revealed in Marseille and spent a season with Monaco, Mendy had become the most expensive defender in history in 2017 when the Citizens did not hesitate to pay 52 million pounds (about 60 million euros) to secure its services.
When he arrived at City, where he had a year and a half left on his contract, he was considered one of the great French and world hopes as left-back.
But the career of the now 27-year-old player has been hampered for four years by injuries, before being hampered by this legal process.
