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".
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