• Karim Benzema and four men appear from Wednesday before the 7th correctional chamber of the judicial court of Versailles in the so-called Mathieu Valbuena sextape case.

  • The Real Madrid striker is suspected of helping his co-defendants pressure his former teammate to pay, in exchange for not showing a video of his sexual antics.

  • Karim Benzema was absent on the first day of the trial.

    The other defendants gave explanations which apparently did not convince the president of the court.

At the court of Versailles

Around the footballers, often revolves a fauna of unsavory individuals ready to do anything to make a little money. The four men tried since Wednesday at the court of Versailles (Yvelines) for an attempted blackmail on Mathieu Valbuena are a perfect example. One of them, Axel Angot, recovered, in 2014, a video of the former midfielder of the France team in the midst of sexual intercourse and said to himself that it could be used to settle a debt of 25,000 euros. At the time, this 45-year-old Marseillais was a sort of luxury concierge for players. He claims to have had as many as 200 customers calling him to book airline tickets or handle computer issues. Among them, Valbuena, whom he has known since his stint at OM,Trust him and one day contacts him to transfer data from a BlackBerry to a new device.

By discovering the video showing him in full adultery, Angot has the idea of ​​keeping it, aware that it could "certainly" be useful to him one day. Especially since with one of his friends, Mustapha Zouaoui, nicknamed "Sata", he contracted a debt with another player, Nicolas Marin. The latter had entrusted them with luxury watches to sell them. But the duo lost them and here are the two men forced to repay it. They have an idea: if Valbuena learns of its existence, he will surely ask Angot, "his trusted guy", to do what is necessary to recover this video. The player, reassured, could then have given him "a reward". Isn't that the very definition of blackmail, asks the prosecutor? “Indirectly it's the same thing,” he admits.But I was not the one who contacted Mathieu and no sum of money was requested from him. "

"Football and luxury, that makes sense"

"Sata" talks about it to Younes Houass, one of his acquaintances, met at the Commanderie, the training center for OM players.

The latter is responsible for anonymously contacting the 37-year-old player who now plays in Greece, at Olympiakos.

Which he will do several times.

The defendant claims he didn't do it for the money.

According to him, this "football fan" simply wanted to help Valbuena save his career and preserve his family.

"Stop making us believe you are Mother Teresa!"

»Launches the president, Christophe Morgan, annoyed by the explanations often capillotracted of the four men.

But Valbuena does not take Younes Houass seriously. We have to find something else. Zouaoui then becomes attached to Karim Zenati, who is a childhood friend of another player of the France team, Karim Benzema. During a meeting in Madrid with them, he quickly evokes the existence of this video. But, according to him, the discussion focuses on the business of custom-made Vuitton cushions that he planned to launch. “Magnificent, top-of-the-range and everything” pieces… and above all very kitsch. He hopes the Real striker, to whom he gifted one of his creations, will help him offer them to other players or club presidents. Zouaoui convinces Zenati to join forces with him. "Football and luxury, that makes sense", explains the one who presents himself as the "brother" of Benzema. “He had the product and I had the potential future customers. "

"It was a lot of fun for you, this conversation"

But, very quickly, "Sata" spoke to him again about the video of Valbuena and asked him for a "service": Benzema would have to speak to his teammate of the Blues, that he made him understand that this matter of video is serious.

And that his friend can help him deal with the situation.

This is what he will do in the privacy of his room in Clairefontaine, October 6, 2015. Right after, the attacker calls Karim Zenati to debrief him.

"He doesn't take us seriously," "KB9" told him.

The two men laugh and laugh at Valbuena.

“It was a lot of fun for you, this conversation,” notes the president.

Benzema is also on trial for complicity in attempted blackmail.

But the player, who was playing a match on Wednesday night in Ukraine, was absent this Wednesday at Versailles.

The trial is due to end on Friday.

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