The trial of the blackmail case at the “sextape” has opened, Wednesday, October 20, the Versailles Criminal Court, in the absence of Karim Benzema. The football player is pursued for “complicity of blackmail attempt” on his ex-teammate Mathieu Valbuena.
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“Today, we could have had this confrontation.” At the bar of the 7 e Chamber of the Versailles Criminal Court, Mathieu Valbuena lamented the absence, in the room of hearing, one of the defendants: his ex-teammate in France football team, Karim Benzema, 33, pursued for “complicity of blackmail attempt”.
The latter not having presented to the court for “professional motive”, namely “two matters of importance this week” with his club of Real Madrid, as his lawyer Antoine Vey, Mathieu Vall Vall, 37 years old, was therefore, Wednesday, October 20, the main protagonist of the first day of the trial of the blackmail on the “sextape” exercised on him in 2015.
“Victim” of this missed scam attempt, the former winger of the Blues recalled the consequences of this scandal on his career: “It did a lot of evil as well as my family. After this History, I have never been able to put back into France team and not participated in Euro 2016 organized in France. “
A childhood friend of Benzema
The footballer will never forget this evening of October 6, 2015. That day, his teammate Karim Benzema invites him in his room, in Clairefontaine (Yvelines), headquarters of the France team, to speak to him. ‘a sexual video putting it on stage with a woman he assures having seen.
“He was insistent to meet someone he presented as his brother, without giving his identity, so that he regulates my problem,” said Vallibuena. He promised on the head of His daughter that there would be no copy of the video. I thought Karim was part of the blackmail. I feel like he wanted to scare me and put pressure on me. We do not live In the world of bisounours: it was impossible for me to meet his man of trust for free. “
At the time, Mr. Valbuena still ignores that “this man of confidence” that Mr. Benzema wants to meet him is Karim Zenati, childhood friend and employee of the Star of Real Madrid. The latter, already condemned by the past for “aggravated flight and drug trafficking”, is referred to the Versailles Criminal Court, like three other defendants, for “blackmail attempt”.
In August 2015, Mr. Zenati approached Mushillais Mustapha Zouaoui Alias Sata, who gravitated in the professional football microcosm. Under cover of wanting to “do business” with Mr. Zenati in the sale of luxury cushions, Mr. Zouaoui asks him to play the intermediary with Mr. Benzema so that the latter evokes the existence of the “sextape” with m . Valbuena.
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