"So when is the masquerade, eh?"
Karim Benzema was quick to react to the announcement of his referral to the Versailles Criminal Court in the blackmail case targeting his teammate Mathieu Valbuena via a sextape.
The Real Madrid striker used the tone of irony to comment very briefly on his Instagram account on this upcoming summons, the date of which has not yet been released.
Karim Benzema's reaction on social networks.
The Real Madrid striker is suspected of having incited his ex-teammate in the France team to pay blackmailers who threatened to unveil an intimate video featuring him.
Four other men are also referred in this case dating from 2015 for attempted blackmail and one of them for breach of trust as well.
The former international Djibril Cissé was himself removed from prosecution, in accordance with the prosecution's requisitions made at the end of June.
His lawyer denounces "relentlessness"
A little earlier in the day, Me Sylvain Cormier, Karim Benzema's lawyer had made a first comment to this information by denouncing a "relentlessness" against his client: "We are unfortunately not surprised.
This is a decision as absurd as it is predictable.
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