Media: Lawyers for Neymar accuser resign from mandate

Sao Paulo (SID) The affair surrounding the rape allegations against Brazil's soccer star Neymar (27) is becoming increasingly diffuse. As the Brazilian TV station Globo reported on Monday evening, the alleged victim's lawyers have ended their cooperation due to contradictory statements from the young woman. The broadcaster quoted from a letter from the Fernandes e Abreu law firm. Accordingly, the client initially stated that she was in a relationship with the star striker from Paris St. Germain. However, he later became violent and physically attacked her. However, the woman, whose identity is being kept secret, clearly spoke to the police about rape, which is a completely different claim. Meanwhile, Brazilian news site UOL Esporte claimed it had access to a medical report that said the young woman suffered from hematomas on her legs and buttocks, stomach problems and post-traumatic symptoms. The medical report was prepared by a Brazilian doctor in Sao Paulo six days after the attack. Brazil's football association CBF has meanwhile requested that Neymar's statement to the police be postponed until Monday. The Selecao will play their last preparatory game for the Copa America on Sunday in Porto Alegre against Honduras. Brazil starts the South American Championship in their own country against Bolivia on June 14th in Sao Paulo. Neymar will definitely be there, as CBF President Rogerio Caboclo confirmed. "There is no chance that he won't take part in the Copa America," Caboclo said on Tuesday on the sidelines of the FIFA Congress in Paris. The police department responsible for cybercrime in Rio de Janeiro announced on Sunday that it would open an investigation against Neymar for publishing intimate photos without the consent of the person concerned. At the same time, an investigation is already underway in Sao Paulo, where the young woman filed a complaint against Neymar last Friday. Neymar vehemently denies the allegations of rape and says he “fell into a trap”. Neymar's mother Nadine Goncalves addressed her son very emotionally via Instagram on Tuesday: "In the moment when everything is finally clarified and the truth of God comes to light, it is time to learn from it and come to Jesus Christ, yours first love to return." Goncalves also advised her son to forgive the woman who accused him of rape. To prove his innocence, Neymar published chat histories on his Instagram profile on Saturday. The photos were edited before publication, do not show the woman's face, and intimate parts of her body were also blurred, which could eliminate the possible penalty. The entry on Neymar's Instagram account has now been deleted.

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Media: Lawyers for Neymar accuser resign from mandate

The affair surrounding the rape allegations against Brazil's soccer star Neymar (27) is becoming increasingly diffuse. As the Brazilian TV station Globo reported on Monday evening, the alleged victim's lawyers have ended their cooperation due to contradictory statements from the young woman.

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