The Sino-Canadian singer and actor

Kris Wu

, very popular in

China

, has been

accused of rape

by a student who claimed that he forced her two years ago, when

she was 17 years old

, and of having had relationships with seven other minors at who would have gotten drunk, reports the local press.

Wu

, 30, born in the southeastern city of

Guangzhou

, assures that

the accusations are "fabricated"

and that he has put the matter in the hands of the police, according to a statement issued by his record company on the social network Weibo - the Chinese equivalent. Twitter- in which the singer has more than 50 million followers.

Student and

influencer Du Meizhu

accused, in an interview with local news portal NetEase, that Wu raped her two years ago, when she was 17.

Singer defended herself saying it had only met

Du

"once in a meeting organized by a friend", to which he added:

"I have never 'forced women into sex'"

.

Despite this, more than 10 brands that sponsored

Wu

have severed their ties with him, including the music broadcasting platform

Yunting

or the cosmetics company Kans.

The private news portal

Caixin

points out that this is not the first time that

Wu has been

accused

on the internet of taking sexual advantage of his followers.

That media assures that the accusation against

Wu

puts the

movement '#MeToo' in the limelight in China

, a country in which it did not take root in part due to the difficulty posed by the legal system to prove allegations of sexual harassment.

The matter has generated mixed opinions on the networks.

More than 8.76 million users have already visited the trend "

Wu Yifan

Incident

(Kris Wu's Chinese name)" on Weibo, with some pointing out that it should "get out" of

China

- for possessing Canadian nationality - and others questioning his innocence even though no evidence was found to prove the accusation.

On the other hand, some users claim that "history is full of holes" or that it is a matter of "money".

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

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