Cormier replies that this argument has already been rejected by the Supreme Court, so it is already ruled out
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Deschamps opens the door for Benzema to return to the France squad
Benzema’s exclusion was not due to sporting reasons, or not exclusively, but especially to his alleged involvement in the ‘Valbuena case’ or ‘sextape’ and the attempted extortion of the also French international and until then Benzema’s friend, Mathieu Valbuena.
Since the scandal became public, Deschamps left Karim Benzema out of the selection even at the price of not having the Real Madrid striker for Euro 2016 that was played in Gallic lands.
It seems that the attitude of those responsible for French football is changing in part as the president of the Federation, Noël Le Graët, left open the possibility that Benzema will put on the national team shirt again if Deschamps considers it appropriate.
The French coach has not ruled out that possibility in a statement to ‘Le Parisien’. "If I think I have to call him because he is good for the national team, I will". Deschamps assured that "my decision is purely sports and for the interest of the team", because beyond personal issues "it is above all. What happened happened, but I don’t hold a grudge".
At this point, Deschamps was referring to the statements that Benzema had made questioning his work as head of France. For Karim, he had been left out of the selection "by pressure from a racist part of France".
"Other players have been able to make statements against me and that has not prevented me from calling them"Deschamps recalled in the French newspaper. "A selection is not ‘I like this one’, ‘I don’t like this one’. He is still one of the best forwards in France".
In any case, the moment to clear up doubts will be when Deschamps facilitates the call for the next France game against Luxembourg on March 25, within the qualifying phase for the 2018 World Cup in Russia.
The defense of Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema was confident on Thursday that his accusation for complicity in the blackmail of Mathieu Valbuena will be annulled, after the hearing of the Paris Court of Appeal, which will rule on November 8.
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The merengue player’s lawyer, Sylvain Cormier, explained to Efe that he insisted before the judges that the procedure cannot go ahead because "there was clear police manipulation" which turns the accusation into "a cartoon".
Its main asset is the verdict of the Supreme Court, which in July 2017 annulled the decision of a lower court that refused to archive the investigation.
Benzema’s defense, like that of the other three defendants, Mustapha Zouaoui, Karim Zenati and Younes Houass, maintain that the investigation is ongoing. "flawed" for the intervention of a policeman who posed as a close friend of Valbuena to identify the alleged blackmailers.
According to this analysis, it was the agent’s intervention that prompted Houass to commit the crime, and in his absence the defendants would not have kept blackmail Valbuena, from whom they had demanded a sum https://worldbets.top/en/1xbet/ of money in exchange for not publishing a video of their sexual content that they had in their possession.
An opinion that neither Valbuena’s lawyer nor the Prosecutor’s Office share, both in favor of pursuing the case.
The first maintains that, at most, the intervention of the policeman could annul the accusation against Houass, but not against the other two alleged blackmailers or against Benzema, suspected of having put pressure on Valbuena to pay the amount demanded of him.
The Prosecutor’s Office, for its part, understands that the entire case must continue, because the police intervention took place after the blackmail had occurred.
Cormier replies that this argument has already been rejected by the Supreme Court, so it is already ruled out.
With its ruling of July 2017, the Supreme Court returned the case to the Court of Appeal for it to be examined again, considering that there were elements that had not been taken into account.
Benzema’s lawyer advanced that, if the indictment is upheld on appeal, they will appeal to the Supreme Court again. That would lengthen a procedure in which the Madridista has been involved since 2015 and that led to his departure from the French team on the eve of the 2016 European Championship.
The president of France, François Hollande, is very tough on the controversial book he has just published with the French international striker of the Real Madrid, Karim Benzema. In his book ‘A President Shouldn’t Say That’, François Hollande criticizes Karin Benzema in the wake of the Mathieu Valbuena sex tape scandal and calls the Real Madrid striker not an example of morality.
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"Benzema is not an example of morality", Says in one of the chapters of this book the president of France, François Hollande, who also has words for the international players of the French team. "They should train less and give some lessons to strengthen the brain muscles"Hollande assured.
As for the French soccer team and its selected teams, among whom Benzema is not yet, Hollande also denounces that "There is a communitarianization in the French team, there is no attachment between the team and France. In the team there are guys who come from troubled neighborhoods without references, without values ??and who went to play abroad very soon. They have gone from being rude children to very rich vedettes".
When planning the next season, the Real Madrid board and its coach, Zinedine Zidane, are considering as a scenario the possibility of running out of French striker Karim Benzema for a good season due to his problems with the justice of his country . That is why the machinery of the Madrid club has been put back into operation and has once again tested the signing of Polish striker Robert Lewandowski. The problem is that the Bayern Munich player has a large poster in Europe and is also on the Paris Saint-Germain agenda, according to the German newspaper ‘Bild’.
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Florentino Pérez, president of Real Madrid, has been pining for Lewandowski for years, although all his attempts have so far failed. The top Madrid leader has once again set his sights on the tall Polish striker to fill Benzema’s possible vacancy if his involvement in the ‘sex tape’ scandal ends up forcing him into prison. The problem is that Bayern Munich is not willing to put a price on it and Lewandowski is also on the agenda of PSG, which according to ‘Bild’ are willing to make an unbeatable offer. Not even Madrid could enter the bid.
It could be the worst nightmare of any advertiser or marketer. Or, maybe, maybe not. Quite the opposite. The case is to publicize your brand and make people talk and, in this case, the script is perfectly fulfilled. Fate is, at times, very capricious and has wanted the protagonists of one of the latest campaigns of a well-known soft drink brand to be, neither more nor less, than Karim Benzema and Mathieu Valbuena.
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The limited edition of this product has as illustrious faces the two footballers who made the stability of the host of the Eurocup shake over the last few months after the controversial case of blackmail that deeply affected the Olympique de Lyon footballer and splashed squarely at the Real Madrid forward. The small and talented French midfielder has never hidden his disappointment at the events, while the white ‘9’, far from taking the case with discretion, recently charged against coach Deschamps and Valbuena himself in an explosive interview.
The scandal carried out by both ended with a forceful decision: Benzema will miss the Eurocup by decision of the coach. Valbuena was also left off the list, although in his case Deschamps’ technical preferences also come into play. Be that as it may, finding the unfortunate limited edition in supermarkets leaves both local buyers and tourists indifferent.
Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema has lost the lawsuit he filed against the French evening "Le Monde" for publishing the transcript of the interrogations to which he was subjected by the judge in the framework of the investigation for alleged blackmail with a sex video of Mathieu Valbuena.
May 23, 2016 at 1:02 pm CEST
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As published on Monday by the newspaper’s website "L’Équipe", the French justice has annulled the complaint due to a procedural problem in it.
Benzema filed a complaint against "Le Monde", which on December 2 published the content of the statements he made before the Versailles judge instructing the investigation for an alleged blackmail with a Valbuena sex video, in which case the Real Madrid attacker is prosecuted for alleged complicity.
The exchange was recorded by the investigators of the case, and records Benzema’s attempts to get Valbuena to negotiate with blackmailers who claimed to have a sex video of him in which he appears with his partner.
On the same day that this publication was produced, the footballer had planned to give his first interview after being processed, in the news of the night of television "TF1"
The French Justice has lifted the judicial control that had been imposed on Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema for his alleged involvement in the case of the blackmail of Mathieu Valbuena, his lawyer, Sylvain Cormier, said Wednesday.