Manchester United winger Antony has been accused of attacking his ex-girlfriend while pregnant, headbutting her and cutting her hand to the bone.
Antony, who joined United from Ajax for £85 million in August 2022, played for the Red Devils in Sunday’s 3-1 defeat to Arsenal. He has been selected in the Brazil squad for the upcoming World Cup qualifiers against Bolivia and Peru.
Last month, United decided to part ways with striker Mason Greenwood, 18 months after he was arrested in relation to audio and images released on social media of an alleged sexual attack. In October 2022 the striker was charged with attempted rape, controlling and coercive behaviour and assault occasioning actual bodily harm. Greenwood denied all the charges and in February 2023 all charges against him were dropped. The 21-year-old joined La Liga side Getafe on loan on Friday.
The ex-girlfriend who first reported Antony to the police for the alleged assaults responded to the interview via Instagram.
She clearly did not buy the Brazilian’s words and called on the pair of them to hand over their phones to the investigators before claiming that Antony had deleted messages of their conversations.
“My mobile phone is here, ready to be handed over to the case delegate, a neutral person, voluntarily, no problem,” she said on her social media.
“How about he does the same? It’s easy to get a private expert who only works for him to do what he wants…
“Now let him recover all the messages he deleted. That you [Antony] sent me as a single view? Will he? Are we going to hand over both mobile phones? To see who’s lying? I’ll start with me.”
Antony’s ex-girlfriend Gabriela Cavall held a formal interview with Greater Manchester Police on Thursday.
The case is currently on hold, who knows what might happen next, stay tuned with us for more updates.
