Brazil soccer star Neymar has denied an accusation of rape, outlined in a police...
SAO PAULO/RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazil soccer star Neymar has denied an accusation of rape, outlined in a police report seen by Reuters, in which an unnamed woman alleges that the sports star drunkenly assaulted her at an up-market hotel in the French capital.
The accusation represents a fresh blow for the Brazilian, who has seen his international reputation suffer amid incidents of indiscipline. His representatives directed Reuters to their official statement, accusing a Sao Paulo lawyer purportedly representing the victim of trying to extort the soccer star. Reuters was unable to determine the identity of the lawyer or to seek comment on the extortion allegation.
“If we have to show Neymar’s WhatsApps and the conversations with this girl, we will, because it is clear that it was a trap,” he said, adding they were living “difficult moments.” The woman told police she returned home to Brazil two days later without telling French police about the alleged rape because she was “emotionally shaken and afraid to register the facts in another country,” according to the report.Neymar is currently in Brazil, training with the national soccer team ahead of this month’s Copa America.
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