Valbuena and sextape blackmail: Benzema soon heard?

19 October 2015 / Jerome Goulon

It is the Journal du Dimanche which reveals the information: after Djibril Cissé, justice plans to hear Karim Benzema in the sextape blackmail case against Mathieu Valbuena.

 

On October 13, Mathieu Valbuena shook the world of football by filing a complaint against sex tape blackmail. His former OM teammate Djibril Cissé and three other people were arrested and placed in police custody. If the candidate for the next season of Dancing with the Stars emerged during the day and was explained live in Touche pas à mon poste on D8, the Versailles judicial police were charged with the investigation.

In its October 18 edition, the Journal du Dimanche, which cites a judicial source, indicates that Karim Benzema could also be heard in the case. The name of the Blues striker appearing “ on several occasions in a peripheral manner in the telephone tapping set up by the magistrate”, the investigating judge will make the decision at the start of the week whether or not to summon the Real Madrid striker.

Remember that three people used to frequenting footballers' agents were indicted and then placed in pre-trial detention in this case of sex tape blackmail, the offense of which is punishable by at least five years' imprisonment.