Karim Benzema files a complaint for defamation against Éric Zemmour

Karim Benzema files a complaint for defamation against Éric Zemmour on Friday January 19, franceinfo learned from Maître Hugues Viguier, the footballer’s lawyer, confirming information from RMC Sport. The complaint, which franceinfo consulted, was filed with the Paris judicial court.

On October 19, 2023, in the Télématin program on France 2, the former Reconquête presidential candidate Éric Zemmour notably accused Karim Benzema of “want to apply sharia” Who “plans jihad” Who “means killing Dominique Bernard and killing Samuel Paty”. “What I know is that he is a Muslim who wants to apply sharia and that sharia provides for jihad, and that jihad means killing Dominique Bernard, it means killing Samuel Paty”declared Éric Zemmour about Karim Benzema.

The footballer denounces the stigmatization of Muslims

“All these people think that sharia is a divine law and that it is imposed on them and that in sharia there are various suras and that this sharia provides, among other things, jihad which is the holy war against the unfaithful”Eric Zemmour also affirmed, adding “The infidels are you and me”.

This extract is “appalling contempt and ignorance if not obscurantism unless Mr. Zemmour deliberately maintains confusion in all the notions he invokes to stigmatize all Muslims”, denounces Karim Benzema in his complaint. The footballer believes that through him, Éric Zemmour “claims nothing more and nothing less that in every Muslim there is an enemy determined to kill those who are not Muslims.”

Karim Benzema also filed a complaint at the start of the week against Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin, who had accused him of “notorious links” with the Muslim Brotherhood.