Justice has been beyond the parquet floor by convicting the attacker of the offshore of the crime of “complicity of blackmail attempt” on Mathieu Valbuena.
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For Karim Benzema, the load is tough. The Versailles Criminal Court, Wednesday, November 24, the attacker of the French team guilty of the offense of “complicity of blackmail attempt”, in 2015, on his ex-teammate at the Blues, Mathieu Vallbuena, in the part of the case of the “sextape”. More than a month after the trial held in the absence of the star of Real Madrid, Karim Benzema was sentenced to a one-year sentence of suspended prison and € 75,000. He must, moreover, pay 80,000 euros to Mathieu Valbuena under the moral harm.
The Tribunal was beyond the parquet floor, which had claimed a sentence of ten months of suspended prison for the veuder of the Blues, returned in June in selection after more than five years of betting. The player’s lawyers stated that their client would appeal and come in person “explained” on the occasion of this new hearing.
“Obviously, his absence [at the October hearing] counted,” lamented M e Antoine Vey. “We are in the denaturation of the facts, a truncated or rigged presentation of the facts. According to the adage, justice has its reasons that reason ignores,” reacted M e Sylvain Cormier after reading the Judgment by the President, Christophe Morgan. “This condemnation seems logical with regard to the file and the hearing,” says, for his part, “Paul-Albert Iweins, the lawyer of Mathieu Valbuena.
Zouaoui, “brain” of the operation
The latter “has undergone direct pressures during a training [in October 2015], on the part of an accomplice of the masters singers, a member as him of the France team and whose reputation was dissuaded. To immediately reveal the pressures, “and” was excluded from the France football team and international competitions since 2016, “Morgan recalled.
The other defendants have all been convicted. Axel Angot, which has subtilized Mathieu Valbuena’s telephone data in 2014 and has retained the intimate video filmed by the player, has been convicted “abuse of trust” and “blackmail attempt”: he was sentenced a two-year sentence of prison.
“brain” of the blackmail attempt on Mr. Valbuena, Mustapha Zouaoui was sentenced to two and a half years in prison “with arrest warrant and deposit” and a fine of 3 000 euros. The intermediary, Younes Houass, was sentenced to eighteen months in prison. As for Karim Zenati, the childhood friend of Karim Benzema, in “recidivial state”, he was sentenced to a sentence of fifteen months in prison and a fine of 3,000 euros for “attempt to blackmail”.
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