Sentenced in November 2021 in the case of the “Sextape”, the attacker of the Blues is called upon to appear in June before the Court of Appeal of Versailles.
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This time, the hearing date should arrange Karim Benzema. Absent at its trial in first instance, in October 2021, for “sports reasons”, the attacker of the Blues and Real Madrid will have to appear on June 30, according to our information, before the e Correctional Chamber of the Court of Appeal of Versailles, as part of the appeal trial of the case of “Sextape blackmail” exercised in 2015 on its ex-teammate in France Mathieu Valbuena team.
Condemned in November 2021 to one year in prison with stay and € 75,000, the player had appealed the judgment of the Criminal Court. His lawyers had then declared that their client would come in person “explained” on the occasion of this new hearing. Contacted, one of Karim Benzema’s tips, M e Sylvain Cormier, did not wish to comment.
“It is established by the procedure and debates that Mr. Benzema, to respond to the solicitation of his friend Karim Zenati, and informed of the blackmail maneuvers of which Mathieu Valbuena, remained without success, has Accepted to assist these maneuvers in order to convince his teammate to give in to blackmail and pay a sum of money, “had concluded the judges in their expected.
Benzema will be the only defendant to appear
For magistrates, who had gone beyond the parquet floor, “the importance of Mr. Benzema’s official revenues, assessed by himself and by the press specializing in a dozen million euros per year In 2015 at the sole income of his club, allows to exclude any financial motivation to these actions, who were to provide their beneficiaries between 25,000 and 150,000 euros. ” According to them, his mobile was “the unconditional friendship” that he “wore in Karim Zenati”.
Karim Benzema, who shall pay 80,000 euros under the moral harm to Mr. Valbuena, will be the sole defendant to appear during this summer, to the extent that other convicts, including his childhood friend Karim Zenati, have chosen not to appeal.
This hearing will take place just after the games of the French team planned on the League of Nations in June. It will be held more than four months before the World Cup holding in Qatar (from November 21st to December 18th). At 34, Karim Benzema could argue in the emirate his last world with the blues. He had been suspended in December 2015 by Christmas the Graët, President of the French Football Federation (FFF), because of the business of the sextape, then put to the ban by the coach Didier Deschamps to the Euro 2021.
If an adventure The first instance condemnation of the star was confirmed by the Court of Appeal of Versailles, this decision should not have a sporting consequence. In November 2021, from the announcement of the verdict of the judges reachable, the Graët had repeated to the team: “This sanction does not change anything for me.” “It is selectable. He has the right to work. We can make a mistake, be sentenced and resume work.”
A new condemnation by the Court of Appeal of Versailles will, however, increase the atmosphere around the Blues and their scorer before the planetary tournament, where the players of Didier Deschamps will try to keep their title.