On Friday, the Versailles prosecutor’s office will decide on the case of Mathieu Valbuena’s sex video blackmail, in which Karim Benzema is also among the accused. The tangled story not only affects the two players, the threads lead farther and didn’t start when Benzema was placed in pre-trial detention in 2016. The most important information is about the scandal that completely determines the lives of the two players.
In October 2015, the French national team prepared for a friendly match against Armenia and Denmark. At a training center in Clairefontaine after a workout Mathieu Valbuena he walked through Karim Benzema to your room. Valbuena entered suspiciously. He had been receiving threatening messages for weeks from an unknown person accusing him of owning a sex video depicting him for demanding a ransom, and Benzema claimed he could help close the case.
No one was in the room except the two players. Benzema knew about the blackmail, but at the time she had no information that her phone was being intercepted by the police. After the conversation, Benzema called a friend with whom he was next at 10:30 p.m. conversation excerpt took place.
Familiar: It doesn’t give anything, I guess.
Benzema: Yes. He really doesn’t take us seriously.
A month later, Benzema was remanded in custody at a Paris district police station.
It wasn’t then that the matter exploded, only the world found out about it
The Benzema-Valbuena case, which was born at the time – or as it is called in France: ‘L’Affaire de la sextape’ – has not since ended. He has been thrown back or appealed in several degrees, is currently before the Versailles prosecutor’s office, and five defendants, including Benzema, will be convicted on Friday, October 22nd. But who are they?
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