The Crown wants a trial. In this case of blackmail to the sextape of Mathieu Valbuena, who broke out in 2015 and for a long time parasitized the life of the French football team, Karim Benzema, indicted with five other people (including his childhood friend Karim Zenati) for attempted extortion, may therefore have to be brought to justice.
Karim Benzema is suspected of having incited his ex-teammate in the France team to pay blackmailers who threatened to reveal an intimate video featuring him. The prosecution also asked for a trial for four other men involved in the football community, but he requested a dismissal for Djibril Cisse, also indicted for complicity.
Last December, the Court of Cassation indeed dismissed the appeal of the Real Madrid striker who challenged the fairness of the investigation. This decision by the highest court in the French judicial system therefore opened the way to a criminal trial. If the investigating judge follows the requisitions of the prosecution, the star attacker of Real Madrid will therefore go through the court box.
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