Already earlier on Tuesday, the reports came in L'Équipe and Le Parisien about the sensational return.
In the evening it then became a fact.
Real Madrid's attacking star Karim Benzema, 33, has been selected for the European Championships this summer.
On October 8, 2015, Karim Benzema scored two goals in the 4-0 victory in the training international match against Armenia.
It looked for a long time to be the attacking star's 81st and last international for France, and the 27th and final national team meeting.
Despite being a reliable goal scorer for Real Madrid, and leading the club to several Champions League titles, the national team captain Didier Deschamps has consistently nobbed Benzema.
Poked after the scandal
The reason is the scandal with Benzema's alleged involvement in an extortion linked to a sex video with his former French national team colleague Mathieu Valbuena.
When the event unfolded, it led to Benzema being poked from the squad for the home European Championship 2016, and he has not been part of the national team that finished second in the European Championship 2016 and later world champion in 2018.
Reconciliation and return seemed impossible for a long time.
When he was poked from the European Championships in 2016, Benzema said that the national team captain Deschamps "bowed to the pressure from a racist part of France".
Deschamps, for his part, has said he will "never forget" Benzema's statement.
Trial in October?
Now, however, the parties seem to have smoked a peace pipe.
Because despite the fact that Benzema is charged with extortion in the Valbuena case - the trial is expected to begin in October - he was thus selected by Deschamps for the European Championships.
"Les Bleus" plays in Group F and will face Germany (June 15 in Munich), Hungary (June 19 in Budapest) and Portugal (June 23 in Budapest).