Karim Benzema is indicted for “complicity in attempted extortion” on his former teammate in the French national team Mathieu Valbuena.
The Court of cassation has rejected on Monday the appeal of Karim Benzema, who challenged the loyalty of the investigation on the case of the blackmail over sextape of Mathieu Valbuena in 2015, in which the Real Madrid striker is brought into consideration.
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The Court was of the view that the methods of investigation employed in this folder were compliant, paving the way for a possible trial in corrections for Karim Benzema, and five other people under investigation.
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In June 2015, the football player Mathieu Valbuena had filed a complaint claiming to be the victim of a blackmail attempt after she received the call informing him of the existence of a sex tape in which he appeared in. Karim Benzema, indicted for “complicity in attempted extortion” on his former teammate in the France team, challenging the methods of inquiry of a police officer intervened under coverage in this folder.
Not”an attack on the loyalty of the evidence”
The highest judicial jurisdiction, plenary, said on Monday that it had not been”an attack on the loyalty of the evidence”. In July 2017, it had, on the contrary, gave reason to the star of madrid, but the Paris court of appeal, designated to rule again, it had not been followed and the player was then again appealed.
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This time, the decision is not likely to be a new remedy, which means that the folder will return to the office of the judge of instruction at Versailles. The latter should then decide the holding of a trial. “Obviously, this is a disappointment,” responded the lawyer of Karim Benzema, Patrice Spinosi. “There is something schizophrenic in the fact that the supreme Court says the opposite of what she had said two years ago. So far, Karim Benzema has never been afraid to face his judges, in front of which he will explain on his absence of involvement in this case, it is referred to a court,” he added.
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on The contrary, Frédéric Thiriez, who defends the interests of Mathieu Valbuena, said he is “very satisfied”: “The decision of the plenary assembly goes well beyond this particular case of sextape. It allows, in the interest of the victims, the judicial police to use their investigative techniques to find and arrest the alleged perpetrators of crimes or offences”. Since this case, the two players have never been selected in the France team.
