Case of “Sextape”: ten months of suspended prison required against Karim Benzema

The attacker is pursued for the complicity of blackmail attempt towards his former teammate in France Mathieu Valbuena team.

Le Monde with AFP

On the second day of the trial of the so-called “sextape” case, ten months of suspended prison and € 75,000 were required against Karim Benzema by the prosecution, Thursday, October 21, at Versailles. The attacker of Real Madrid is accused of complicity of blackmail attempt towards his former teammate in France Mathieu Valbuena team.

Against the other four defendants, pursued in this case for a blackmail attempt, the public prosecutor required sentences ranging from eighteen months in prison to four years in prison.

Throughout the debates, the four prevented prevailing depicts a world-watered world of players and where the “services” are exchanged and the blows against luxury watches, leather goods or “Sextapes”. Thus, Axel Angot is a “concierge”, a man to do everything, gifted in computer science. Close to Mathieu Valbuena, he who recovered the video of the intimate ebels when the old international told him his phone.

His friend Mustapha Zouaoui, the “worn ankle” of the project, confesses, having already “returned” to another international, Djibril Cissé, “regulating” a “problem” of “Sextape”, before receiving 15,000 euros. Younes Houass, he plays the intermediaries; He came into contact with Valbuena, to “arrange [his] interest”.

The excuses of Mustapha Zouaoui in Mathieu Valbuena

“The voice of these three who pollute the world of football is back, directly or indirectly, in a room in Clairefontaine”, the Blue Training Center, T hit Benjamin Peyrelevade, the lawyer of the Federation French football (FFF), in an allusion to the role supposedly played by Karim Benzema, missioned by the masters singers with Mathieu Valbuena. The FFF, the Civil Party in this case, “must protect its players,” he supported, greeting the attitude of Valbuena, the “first player who has the courage to say no, to resist, to file a complaint”. Paul-Albert Iweins, the lawyer of Mathieu Valbuena, touched against this “parasitic field of football”, which takes advantage of “young boys” and wealthy. He requested 150,000 euros of repair on behalf of the moral damage.

 Mathieu Valbuena and his lawyer, Wednesday, October 20, 2021, in Versailles.
Mathieu Valbuena and his lawyer, Wednesday, October 20, 2021, in Versailles. Thomas Samson / AFP

At mid-day, Mathieu Valbuena, who has long expressed the day before the consequences of this blackmail attempt for him and for his career, has left Versailles And joined Frankfurt, where his team, the Olympiakos, dispute in the evening a match of League Europa. He plahed with the apologies of Mustapha Zouaoui. “I apologize for the heart, I regret it to death,” said the latter, considered the brain of this company. Very talkative in front of the press and in the courtroom, however, had fun of the player at the bar, Wednesday.

Pronounced for the complicity of blackmathing attempt on Mathieu Valbuena, Karim Benzema does not attend the debates, his lawyers who cited the “professional” imperatives of the attacker of Real Madrid.

/Media reports.