The attacker of the Blues must appear from Wednesday 20 to Friday 22 October for “complicity of blackmail attempt” exercised on his ex-teammate Mathieu Valbuena.
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In the aftermath of a match from his Real Madrid Club in Champions League, will Karim Benzema go to court, Wednesday, October 20? At the peak of his career, the star striker of the Blues, 33, must appear, until Friday, for “complicity of attempt of blackmail” before the Criminal Court of Versailles in the context of the trial of the case so of the “sextape”, which opposes it to its former teammate in France, Mathieu Valbuena, 37 years old.
If he qualified on Instagram this hearing of “masquerade”, in January, when his return to a correctional, the flagship striker of the Blues incurs a maximum sentence of five years in prison and 75 000 euros of fine . Four other defendants, including a childhood friend of Karim Benzema, appear for “blackmail attempts”.
The order for reference, that Le Monde consulted, traces the stages of this failed extortion story that put in parentheses the international career of Madrilène, before his return to France team in May, and put a term to that of Mathieu Valbuena, the presumed victim.
Everything starts in the summer of 2014, when Mathieu Valbuena asks Axel Angot, a Marseillais specialized in the “concierge” for footballers, to transfer his data to a new phone. It was then that Mr. Angot takes possession of a player shot by the player during a sexual relationship with a woman. He thinks of using this “sextape” to settle a debt, counting “on the generosity of Mr. Valbuena”, and hoping “at least 25,000 euros”. Mr. Angot decides, in the spring of 2015, to rely on Marseillais Mustapha Zouaoui, aka “sata”. He too is indebted and gravitated in the microcosm of the round balloon.
Six recorded conversations
The two men first call the ex-striker of the Blues Djibril Cissé to serve as an intermediary with Mathieu Valbuena. Mr. Cissé, in the past, the victim of a similar blackmail attempt, alert in May 2015 Mr. Valbuena of the existence of this video, of which he saw an excerpt. Indicted in 2017 for “complicity of blackmail attempt” in this case, Djibril Cissé will eventually benefit from a non-place, because he did not put Mr. Valbuena in relation to Mr. Zouaoui and “did not retransmitted or used the excerpt from this video that had been sent to him “.
m. Angot and Mr. Zouaoui then charge a loved one, Younes Houass, approach Mr. Valbuena. In June 2015, the latter is contacted by Mr. Houass who says he wants to “arrange” with him about a sexual video, likely to be disclosed before the Euro 2016. Mr. Valbuena shall put a complaint, and a commissioner of the judicial police of Versailles obtains the prosecution permission to play the intermediaries to identify the “order” presumed.
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