At the end of the trial of the attacker of the Blues for “complicity of blackmail attempt”, his lawyers pleaded the relaxed. The judgment will be rendered on November 24th.
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Karim Benzema was not at the Versailles Criminal Court (Yvelines), Friday, October 22, to attend the pleadings of his lawyers. Large absent from his trial for “complicity of blackmail attempt” in 2015, in 2015, on Mathieu Valbuena, his former team team of France, the flagship striker of the Blues became aware of the legal arguments of his Tips from Madrid. It trains with its Real club before the “Clasico” scheduled Sunday against FC Barcelona.
While the prosecution required against Mr. Benzema, aged 33, ten months of suspended prison and € 75,000, M e Antoine Vey took the floor first To remove the “Funny Intellectual Construction” of the Prosecution, while recalling that “doubt” benefited the accused and that “the intentional element of the offense” was not characterized. M e vey invited the Court to question “the real state of mind” of the attacker, on October 6, 2015, during his conversation with Mr Valbuena, at the headquarters Blues in Clairefontaine (Yvelines).
According to the public prosecutor, Benzema would have attempted to convince his teammate to meet his childhood friend, Karim Zenati, against whom the parquet required two years in prison and 5,000 euros fine . Mr. Zenati then played the role of intermediary for two masters presumed, Axel Angot and Mustapha Zouaoui. Which wanted to obtain a financial reward in exchange for the destruction of a sexual video showing Mr. Valbuena, and which they had taken possession.
“A blackmail is not simply proposing in an insistent way to arrange something, it is threatening to reveal a defamatory fact, said M e vey, by advocating the relaxation from his client. There, Mr. Benzema does not say, “If you do not pay, we get out the video”. He says he can make sure, through a trusted friend, to arrange The shot and that does not sort. “
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About the famous phone discussion between MM. Benzema and Zenati intercepted by the police on October 6, 2015, M e vey ensures that his client did not laugh “the misfortune of Valbuena”. “It was not in absolute contrition or benevolence. He gets fed up with a friend, but it has nothing to do with the complicity of blackmail, says the attacker’s council. We did not objectify that Benzema wanted to hurt Valbuena. It is possible that he wanted to show that he was the boss and had an ascendant on his teammate, but that does not constitute a criminal offense. “
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