A Brazilian woman who has accused Neymar Jr of rape has broken her silence to provide a detailed account of the evening she spent with the Brazilian soccer star to reaffirm her allegations against him.
In a television interview with Brazilian station SBT broadcast Wednesday (05.06.19), 26-year-old Najila Trindade said she had been left “traumatized,” accusing the Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) forward of raping and violently assaulting her.
According to CNN, Neymar, the world’s most expensive soccer player, has previously denied all the allegations against him, and has called the incident, “a trap.”
Speaking on Wednesday, Trindade, who met Neymar on May 15th, 2019 in Paris, says she contacted him on Instagram, intent on pursuing a sexual relationship with the soccer star. “There was a sexual intent, it was a desire of mine. I think that was clear to him. And he asked when I could go and I said at that moment I couldn’t, for financial reasons, I couldn’t go, and also because of my schedule at work.
“And so he suggested “well, but I can solve that” and I went. With money … with the ticket,” she told Brazil’s SBT. Trindade says she met Neymar at the Hotel Sofitel Paris Arc Du Triomphe. “I had the desire of being with Neymar and when I got there everything was good, everything was fine, the messages, I was going to succeed, do you understand? But when I got there he was aggressive, totally different from the guy I met through the texts.
“Still, to that point it was fine. Because I really wanted to be with him, I thought, let me try to get a handle on this. And we started to caress each other, to kiss each other and then he undressed me,” she added.
She says that after warning him that she would not have sex without a condom he began to violently restrain her in order to have intercourse with her without using protection. Trindade says she asked Neymar to stop but he refused.
“From the moment that he held me, violently hitting me, he was forcing me to stay there, in that place,” she said. “I don’t think that just because I was keen to be with him that he had the right to do that to me,” she told SBT in Brazil.
Neymar has strenuously denied allegations against him, publishing text messages and photos, on Instagram, he said to prove he was set up, and his representative claimed he was the victim of attempted extortion. “I’m being accused of rape,” the Paris Saint-Germain player said in a video published on his Instagram account last week. “Yes, it is a heavy word, a very strong thing,” he said in Portuguese.
The woman left Paris on May 17th and waited to file a report in Brazil because she “was quite emotionally shaken and scared of registering the facts in another country,” the police report said.
In Wednesday’s TV interview, Trindade says she has no desire for financial compensation and is only “pursuing justice.” She also says that her first lawyer dropped her case after she went to the police to pursue her complaint against his advice.
The latest allegations came on the same day Neymar was ruled out of the Copa America, South America’s showpiece international tournament, after sustaining an ankle injury during Brazil’s 2-0 warm-up win over Qatar in Brasilia. The injury is the latest setback in a forgettable season for Neymar, who was stripped of the Brazilian captaincy last month following disciplinary issues.
This is not the first time that a football superstar has been accused of rape, last year, a woman named Kathryn Mayorga, alleged that 34-year-old Portuguese striker Cristiano Ronaldo raped her in a Las Vegas hotel penthouse suite in 2009.
