Karim Benzema will be judged for allegedly inciting his former teammate on the French national team to pay extortionists that they threatened to release an intimate video of Valbuena, in 2015, the Versailles prosecutor’s office announced to AFP on Thursday.
Four other men are implicated in the case for attempted blackmail and one of them also for breach of trust.
“Unfortunately we are not surprised. This is a decision as absurd as it is foreseeable “, reacted the lawyer of Benzema, Sylvain Cormier, who denounced a “cruelty” against his client.
When in October 2015 the France team was preparing a friendly against Armenia, Benzema evoked against Valbuena the existence of a video with intimate images of the latter.
For the player of the Real Madrid, it was about a friendly conversation with the aim of alerting your partner.
Benzema, 33, He has not been summoned by the ‘Bleus’ since the case came to light.
The forward, who has scored 261 goals for Real Madrid since his arrival at the white club in 2009, maintains that a police officer used illegal methods to implicate him in the case.
Valbuena, who currently plays for the Greek Olympiakos, notified the police after receiving a call from one of the blackmailers threatening to publish the video.
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