Karim Benzema has played and won three Champions League finals and has been key to the success of Real Madrid in recent times, the team’s best scorer since Cristiano Ronaldo left , that’s a fact, but it seems that He is just going to start to fight the toughest challenge of his career.
And it will be off the pitch, before the French authorities that They accuse him of having participated in an elaborate extortion of his teammate Mathieu Valbuena:
The events began when in the summer of 2014 Axel Angot and Mustapha Zouaoui, who worked for Valbuena in Marseille, took a video with sexual content in which the player appeared with his wife.
According to the accusation, through a common acquaintance, they came into contact with the soccer player in June of 2015 to demand money in exchange for n or spread it. Valbuena refused to pay and gave notice to the police.
Scandal in France: Karim Benzema will be tried for the case of sexual blackmail against his teammate Mathieu Valbuena https://t.co/ryAZaeaHCe
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Meanwhile, the alleged blackmailers contacted another player, Djibrill Cissé, to persuade Valbuena that he should pay. As they were not successful either, they turned to Karim Zenati, a childhood friend of Benzema , to get the Real Madrid player into the game and use him as a mediator.
Here is the key piece of the case: on October 5, 2015, during a concentration of the French team, Benzema went to Valbuena’s room and told him that it would be better if he paid to avoid problems.
The madridista maintains that he gave him a friend’s advice , but the prosecution considered that It was a na pressure measurement, for which he was charged on November 5, 2018 for a crime of complicity in blackmail, for which can be sentenced to up to five years in prison.
Benzema, of 33 years, has not been called up again with the French team since the end of 2015, although even is considered one of the best French strikers ever .