Real Madrid: Process for sex video for now without benzema

The procedure for tried extortion with a sex video has been in France without the defendant Real-Madrid striker Karim Benzema. The court in Versailles near Paris opened the process on Wednesday, as the prosecutor s office confirmed the German Press Agency .

Benzema lawyers stated that the player s professional obligations made his participation impossible. Even the day before, the Real striker had stood on the lawn in the Champions League game against Schachtjor Donetsk in Kiev.

In addition to Benzema, four more men are in court in the process. You are tried blackmail and in a case of trust abuse accused, with Benzema, the charge for average is average attempt. The professional footballer threatens up to five years imprisonment and a fine of 75,000 euros. The negotiation should take until Friday. The defense of Genzemas had rejected the allegations and cooked on acquittal.

The case goes back to June 2015. At that time, the French midfielder Mathieu Valbuena was threatened with a call with the publication of an intimate video on which it was seen. Benzema is suspected to have acted as an accomplice. Because of the involvement in the affair Benzema 2016 had missed the European country.

Specifically, the allegations against the attacker is a private conversation with Valbuena about the sex video. Benzema should have tried to persuade his colleagues to talk to a middle man. While money had not been spoken, but this had been clear, said Valbuena of the newspaper Le Monde .

The origin of the affair is a 25,000 euros high liability according to L équipe , which should be settled with the blackmail test. The sex video should have drawn one of the defendants of Valbuena s phone, the sender France Info reported.