first day of the trial, without Karim Benzema

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C. Weil Raynal, N. Perez, V. Piffeteau, S. Feydel, C. Pary, F. Fontaine – France 2

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Karim Benzema was absent Wednesday, October 20 at the opening of the trial between him and Mathieu Valbuena. After six years of waiting, the alleged victim will finally be able to speak at the bar on the sextape blackmail of which he claims to have been a victim.

The absence of Karim Benzema at the opening of his trial Wednesday October 20 was particularly noticed. The famous football player was not presentt and his lawyer has not made any public statement about it. Mathieu Valbuena is however awaiting an explanation, regarding the case of which he considers himself a victim. As a reminder, Karim Benzema is accused of having used an intimate video of Mathieu Valbuena pour blackmailing him and extorting funds from him. One of the defendants, Mustapha Zouaoui, refutes this version: “There was no blackmail, there was no request for money. I never asked Karim to go see Mathieu and ask him to money “.

At the bar, Mathieu Valbuena testifies to the appeals and psychological pressures he suffered. THE’former midfielder of OM and the Blues explains that he never summer explicitly question of a sum of money, but constant threats from people who claimed to have “Something” of compromising on him. Telephone tapping confirms victim’s version presumed : half-word threats, of which we can imagine the objective of extortion. Karim Benzema, the aattacking Real Madrid and the Blues, incurs up to five years in prison.


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