Karim BenzemaReal Madrid striker and French international, changed his mind and won’t appeal his sentence the year he was exempted from serviceConvicted of complicity in October 2021, Blackmail with a sexual video in 2015former teammate Mathieu Valbuena.
This was confirmed to L’Equipe by Benzema’s lawyer, Hugues Vigier. his client is “completely exhausted” from this six-year-long process. The football player, who announced that he wanted to appeal the court decision last October, was due to appear in court at the end of June.
“Karim Benzema he will always claim his innocence in this matter and he never wanted to participate in a blackmail operation against Mathieu Valbuena,” added the lawyer, confirming the “deep sense of injustice” felt by the merengue player.
By accepting this sentence, the player no longer has a clean criminal record and would enter into force that year in the event of a new crime punishable by imprisonment.
Benzema, 34, fHe was also fined 75,000 euros and will pay Valbuena 80,000 euros in compensation.The court ruled that this case suffered high moral damage as it affected him personally, his relationships with his wife, and professionally, never wearing the “bleu” for the national team again.