PSG and Brazilian soccer star, Neymar Junior is not having the best of times. He was recently accused of raping a woman in Paris.
BBC reports that 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 a luxury hotel in Paris.
When Neymar came to the hotel on 15 May, 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.
Meanwhile, Neymar has denied the allegation. In a statement released after the accusations became public, the footballer’s management condemned “the unjust accusations and, above all, the exposure in the press of an extremely negative situation”.
The statement said Neymar had been the “victim of an attempted extortion” and “evidence of attempted extortion and non-rape will be submitted to the police authorities”.
Neymar directly addressed the allegations in a seven-minute video on his Instagram page.
As if all these were not enough, the PSG forward has been stripped of the captaincy of Brazil, following recent disciplinary issues.
French football authorities banned Neymar from three matches after he hit a fan following PSG’s defeat by Rennes in the Coupe de France final last month.
