{"id":20458,"date":"2021-11-24T05:19:26","date_gmt":"2021-11-24T10:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=20458"},"modified":"2021-11-24T05:19:26","modified_gmt":"2021-11-24T10:19:26","slug":"karim-benzema-french-footballer-guilty-in-sex-tape-blackmail-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2021\/11\/24\/karim-benzema-french-footballer-guilty-in-sex-tape-blackmail-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Karim Benzema: French footballer guilty in sex tape blackmail case"},"content":{"rendered":"
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France and Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema has been found guilty of conspiring to blackmail a fellow French footballer with a sex tape.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A judge handed Benzema a one-year suspended jail term and ordered him to pay a \u20ac75,000 (\u00a363,000; $84,000) fine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Benzema, 33, was one of five people put on trial last month over the attempt to extort Frenchman Mathieu Valbuena.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The scandal has stunned the football community in France and both players lost their national team places.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The case dates back to June 2015, when the two footballers were at a French training camp.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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At the camp, Benzema put pressure on Valbuena to pay off the blackmailers, whom he had conspired with to act as an intermediary, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Benzema has always denied the allegations and insisted he was only trying to help Valbuena get rid of the compromising video.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The player has since returned to the France team and is expected to start for Real Madrid on Wednesday night when they play FC Sheriff Tiraspol in the Champions League.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Benzema was not present in court in Versailles for the verdict, nor was Valbuena who plays for Greek club Olympiakos.<\/p>\n

Source: bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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