The attacker of the Blues was supposed to appear, from October 20 to 22, for “complicity of blackmail attempt” exercised on his ex-teammate Mathieu Valbuena.
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Karim Benzema will not sit on the warned bench, Wednesday, October 20, the Versailles Criminal Court. According to concordant sources contacted by Le Monde, the flagship striker of the Blues will not visit his trial, scheduled for three days, for “complicity of blackmail attempt” to the “sextape” exercised in 2015, on his ex -Coicier in selection, Mathieu Valbuena. The player incurs a maximum sentence of five years in prison. He will be represented at the hearing by his lawyers, my Antoine Vey and Sylvain Cormier.
Tuesday, he participated in the victory (5-0) of Real Madrid against Chakhtor Donetsk, during the third day of Champions League. The match took place in Kiev, more than 2,200 km from Versailles.
“Karim works, he has a job,” said RMC, Monday Karim Djaziri, the former agent of K. Benzema. He matches tomorrow [Tuesday] in the Champions League, and a Clasico to prepare Sunday, between Parentheses. Just one of the most important games in the world … “
Karim Benzema suspected of having” helped the realization of this blackmail “
According to the order for reference, that Le Monde consulted, Karim Benzema is suspected by the investigating judge, Anne Duval, “to have helped the realization of this blackmail by proposing to Mr. Valbuena (… ) During an interview in the initiative, insistently (…) the services of a close friend (his childhood friend, Karim Zenati), while validating the fact that this action is Not free. “
During his hearing, “Mathieu Valbuena then stated that he was going on at the beginning that it was a” friendly advice “then had seen herself during the conversation he was an intermediary of the masters singers. He had Feel that Benzema wanted to make her understand that it was serious that it could do damage on him, his family and the team of France. “
One of the masters presumed, Axel Angot, had maintained before the investigators that one of the defendants, Mustapha Zouaoui “had the idea of calling Karim Benzema via Karim Zenati, to put pressure on Mr. Valbuena “. According to him, “Mr. Benzema’s intervention had the purpose of making Mr. Valbuena pay.”
For the Defense of Karim Benzema, this accusation is unfounded. “What Karim Benzema is fundamentally waiting for this trial is that we finally realize the absurd nature of the accusation against him in this case”, esteem M e Sylvain Cormier.