Benjamin Mendy case back in court as new hearing set ahead of Manchester City footballer's rape trial
Blogs 28-year-old's preceding for eight counts of assault, one count of endeavored assault and one count of rape started at Chester Crown Court on Monday;
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Manchester City left-back Benjamin Mendy and a companion turned the "quest for individuals for sex into a game", their assault trials has heard.
The job of Mendy's companion, Louis Saha Matturie, was "to track down young ladies and to cause the circumstances where those young ladies could be assaulted and physically attacked", the court was told on the main day of the preliminary.
Mendy, 28, a French player who was suspended by Manchester City when he was charged a year prior, is blamed for eight counts of assault, one count of endeavored assault and one count of rape.
Matturie, 40, is blamed for eight counts of assault and four of rape.
The two of them deny every one of the charges.
The court heard that the oppression of the couple made them "prey" by "13 ladies" who would have rather not taken "no" for a response.
"The indictment's case is straightforward," Timothy Cray QC told Chester Crown Court.
"This doesn't have a lot of to do with football. All things considered, we're saying it's one more section in an extremely old story: men who misuse and assault ladies since they believe they're strong and they want to dispose of it."
Mendy was named to the group of "Manchester City" in 2017. At the point when he showed up from Monaco for £52 million.
He won the World Cup with France in 2018 and won the Premier League multiple times somewhere in the range of 2018 and 2021 with Man City.
The wrongdoings are accepted to have happened between October 2018 and August 2021.
Mendy was depicted by Mr Cray as a "extremely well known footballer" and said that in view of his "riches and status, others were ready to assist him with getting anything he needed".
Bringing ladies to the Mendi castle was a method for "triumph". "Command over their victims ," Mr Cray said.
It turned into in division, on a very basic degree unending the spectators thought, and after they had been there, with the entryways close in the back of them, they felt weak." The respondents "had been now no longer in an euphoric state of sexual loss of regard" and comprehended what they had been doing, he added.
The trial, which is scheduled to last 15 weeks, continues.
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