Rape investigation that Swedish media say focused on Kylian Mbappé has been closed

At the time Mbappé’s legal team dismissed those reports as false. Mbappe’s lawyer Marie-Alix Canu-Bernard and the player’s representatives did not immediately respond to requests for comment Thursday. In an interview that aired Sunday on French TV station Canal Plus, Mbappé said he was “surprised” by the reports that he was the subject of a rape investigation and he had not been contacted by Swedish authorities. “These are things that come into your life like that, you can’t see them coming,” Mbappé told Canal Plus. “It’s just incomprehension. I don’t think it weighed on me in the sense that I have never considered myself involved.” The 25-year-old soccer star appeared in Stockholm on Oct. 10 during an international break instead of playing for France in the Nations League. Just days later Swedish media reported he was the subject of the investigation. At the time Swedish prosecutors confirmed that a rape investigation began but declined to comment further. AP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccer