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Balotelli facing sexual allegations after relationship with 17-year-old

Mario Balotelli is facing accusations of sexual violence committed against an under-age girl, according to The Sun.

Mario Balotelli and sex allegations

Police are investigating claims made against the Brescia striker relating to an incident from January 2018 when he played for French club Nice.

Balotelli had a brief relationship with a girl who claimed she was 18 – the local age of consent – and then revealed she was 17 and threatened to inform the police if she did not receive €100,000 from the footballer.

Balotelli stopped that attempt at blackmail, before a legal adviser of the girl – who reportedly comes from near Vicenza in north-eastern Italy – tried to sell her story to a paper with the 29-year-old Italy international cleared after a police probe.

However, Elisa Romeo, who has recently been appointed as the woman’s lawyer, is insisting Balotelli is still facing the possibility of criminal action.

Ms Romeo said: ‘In January 2018 the young woman, before being denounced in her turn, filed a lawsuit against Mario Balotelli following a relationship.

‘It began consensually. However it evolved into sexual acts that were not wanted by the girl, and subsequently into sexual violence.’

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His legal advisers insisted: ‘We will make the required checks at the appropriate places.’

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