A sign that the Swedish case is being taken with consideration by the Mbappé clan, a criminal lawyer has been hired, Me Marie-Alix Canu-Bernard.
Since Tuesday evening, she has been making the rounds on television sets when she is not responding to AFP. Criminal lawyer Me Marie-Alix Canu-Bernard was hired by the Mbappé clan to work on the rape complaint file which was allegedly filed against football in Stockholm, Sweden, according to Swedish media. A criminal lawyer since 1991 at the Paris Bar and at the International Criminal Court, she pleads both before national common law criminal courts and before exceptional or disciplinary courts, explains her information sheet on his office website.
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Her clients included the actor and director Dany Boon, the French magistrate Gilbert Azibert in the “tapping” affair, the “king of the fairgrounds” Marcel Campion, and even Amedy Coulibaly, the killer of the hyper-hidden January 9, 2015. That day, she showed remarkable composure, providing assistance to the RAID negotiators. In short, she is used to difficult issues, stars, but also the press – she worked as an assistant for the editor-in-chief of the “New York Times”, in Africa, before meeting the woman she considers his mentor, criminal lawyer Joseph Cohen-Sabban.
“A sanitary cordon around him”
On the BFM setthis Wednesday morning, Me Marie-Alix Canu-Bernard explained “not having any information on the complaint filed and whether it targets Kylian Mbappé”. “He has nothing to reproach himself for,” she continued. He cannot imagine for a single second that a complaint would be filed […] He doesn’t know what we’re talking about.” “As if by chance […] it’s the same media (the tabloid “Aftonbladet”, Editor’s note) which published a photo of him in Stockholm and two days later which published the fact that there was a complaint filed against him. The complaint was filed in real time of its media coverage.” “For months and months, he has been subjected to a campaign of denigration and damage to his image, it is undeniable,” she then explained, when asked about a possible link between this affair and the financial conflict with the his former club, Paris Saint-Germain. “He has a sanitary cordon around him, a kind of bubble. He is very exposed, he knows it,” she continued. “(The bubble) is there to protect him from the risks inherent to his notoriety. » “He is very calm, he knows what he has done and especially what he has not done.”
According to our information, Me Delphine Verheyden remains the player’s lawyer regarding the financial dispute between PSG and its former star Kylian Mbappé. A specialist in sports law, she has advised the Real Madrid player since 2015 and his years in Monaco. She pleaded again on Tuesday before the joint appeals committee of the Professional Football League which will make its decision on October 25, AFP learned from a source close to the club. The captain of the France team is demanding 55 million euros in unpaid salaries and other bonuses from his former club.
