The Paris Appeal Court will re-examine the case against Real Madrid star Karim Benzema for his alleged role in the blackmail of fellow international Mathieu Valbuena on October 4, sources told AFP on Friday.
The hearing has been awaited since July 2017 when France’s highest court, the Court of Cassation, annulled a Versailles Court of Appeal decision to send Benzema to trial for allegedly attempting to blackmail Valbuena over a sex tape and ordered the Paris court to review the original ruling.
The affair began in June 2015 when Valbuena received a call from a blackmailer who threatened to release an intimate video.
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Valbuena contacted the police who assigned an undercover officer to the case.
Investigators accused Benzema of acting as an intermediary between the presumed blackmailers and Lyon midfielder…
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