Karim Benzema will be tried for complicity in the case of blackmail related to a video with sexual content of his former teammate in the French team Mathieu Valbuena . This was announced this Thursday by the Prosecutor of the Court of Versailles.
“The decision to bring him to trial is an absurd and unfair cruelty” , said the player’s lawyer, Sylvain Cormier, for whom “Benzema has nothing to reproach himself with in this summary.”
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The case dates back to 2015 , when two men who had an alleged intimate video of Valbuena with his wife tried to extort him and, given his refusal, contacted a childhood friend of Benzema in order to obtain the mediation of the madridista, who spoke with him during a concentration of “Les Blues”
The lawyer also regretted that the investigating judge “has distorted the facts” because Valbuena himself acknowledged that in the controversial conversation with Benzema “no they talked about money. ”
The defense acknowledged that they are not surprised by the decision to prosecute their client after how The instruction of the case has been developed , although he relied on the explanations that will be given in court.