Six months suspended prison sentence was required Friday, October 15 against a woman suspected of trying to blackmail French Manchester United striker Anthony Martial, with whom she had a relationship via social networks, we learned from a judicial source.
The criminal court will render its decision on November 20.
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The international had filed a complaint in July 2019 against this woman who appeared on Instagram as a model traveling around the world but was in fact a 30-year-old unemployed woman living near Nancy.
Between 2018 and 2019, according to this woman, she and the footballer regularly exchanged words and especially intimate videos.
These are the images that the young woman would have threatened to publish when Anthony Martial sent her an SMS to put an end to their virtual story.
"
I have a lot of compromising photos, either you pay, or I throw everything to the press,
" she is suspected of having written.
The defendant's lawyer refuted the “
blackmail attempt
” and highlighted the absence of sender and date on the screenshot of the message.
This message materialized the attempt at blackmail, however considered the public prosecutor of Nancy François Perain, who also requested the confiscation of luxury items found at the home of the defendant.