The Brazilian football star, Neymar, has strongly denied an
accusation that he raped a woman in Paris.
According to a police report filed in São Paulo, the woman
alleges that the attack took place in a hotel in the French capital, where
Neymar plays for Paris St-Germain (PSG).
According to police documents, the woman who has not been
named got to know Neymar on Instagram and he suggested they meet in Paris. He
provided her with an air ticket from Brazil to France and a reservation at the
Hotel Sofitel Paris Arc Du Triomphe.
When Neymar came to the hotel on May 15th, he was
"apparently drunk," the woman alleges. After conversation and
embraces, "at some point, Neymar became aggressive, and through violence,
engaged in sexual intercourse against the will of the victim," the police
document states.
The woman returned to Brazil two days later, without
reporting the alleged incident to French police, because she was
"emotionally shaken and afraid to register the facts in another
country," the document continues.
In a statement released after the accusations became public,
Neymar's management said: "We completely repudiate the unjust accusations
and, above all, the exposure in the press of an extremely negative
situation."
The footballer's father, Neymar dos Santos, told Band TV in
Brazil on Saturday that "it is clear that it was a trap. If public opinion
is not cleared up, and if we can't show the truth rapidly, this will snowball.
If we have to show Neymar's WhatsApps and the conversations with this girl, we
will".
