• Celebrities accuse popular singer Kris Wu of rape

Beijing local police detained

Chinese

-Canadian singer and actor

Kris Wu,

very popular in China, for

alleged rape

and for deceiving women - some of them minors - into having sex with them, local press reports.

According to a statement by the Beijing Police issued last night on the social network Weibo (equivalent to Twitter), Wu "

repeatedly tricked young women into having sex with them"

and is also "suspected of rape."

Many users of this social network, where Wu had more than 50 million followers, have called for an "impartial" investigation and "serious punishment" for the 30-year-old singer.

The scandal erupted in late July, when influential student Du Meizhu accused, in an interview with local news portal NetEase, that Wu raped her two years ago, when she was 17.

According to Du, the singer

cheated on young people who wanted to become actresses

and got them drunk to have sex with them.

The student assured that the number of victims is higher than eight women and that several are minors.

For his part, the singer asserted that the accusations are "fabricated", despite which more than

10 brands that sponsored him broke their ties with him,

including the music broadcasting platform Yunting or the cosmetic products company. Kans.

According to media such as the Caixin portal, the accusation of Wu has once again put the '#MeToo' movement 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 harassment sexual.

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