Karim Benzema
will have to sit on the bench for the 'Valbuena case'.
The Real Madrid striker will be tried for "attempted blackmail" with a video of sexual content of his partner in the French team
Mathieu Valbuena
, the Versailles prosecutor's office announced this Thursday to AFP.
The case dates back to 2015, when two men who had an alleged intimate video of Valbuena with his wife tried to blackmail him and, given his refusal, contacted a childhood friend of Benzema to obtain the mediation of the Madridista, who spoke with the victim during a concentration of the French team.
The white 9 will be tried for having allegedly incited his former partner to pay the extortionists.
Four other men are implicated in the case for attempted blackmail and one of them also for breach of trust.
"The decision to bring him to trial is an absurd and unfair cruelty," the player's lawyer, Sylvain Cormier, told Efe, for whom "Benzema has nothing to reproach himself with in this summary."
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