The second day of the hearing for the so-called Valbuena Case had as its main protagonist Mustapha zouaoui, considered as the hypothetical intellectual author of the alleged attempt to blackmail Valbuena for a video with sexual content in 2015. “Frankly I’m sorry, I tell you clearly, what I did to you is not right. I tell you, you would kick me, that would be normal, you don’t deserve to be there, “Zouaoui told Valbuena, although he has insisted that his goal was not to get money. “It is not the same to make fun of him to ask for money, there are two worlds; he would never have wanted to hurt Valbuena,” he says.
Benzema is charged with allegedly trying to help Valbuena by offering the help of a mediator between him and the blackmailers. “This matter, from day one, has had an enormous repercussion. The judicial information was produced by leaks in the press. The participation of Benzema was learned more from the press than from Valbuena himself. It has repercussion. Beyond that, It is a case in which Benzema has always remembered his total innocence and does not get directly involved in the exchanges that concern the other defendants. His voice is easy to hear: he intervened in a single conversation with Mr. Valbuena to offer, if he so desired, freely and without compensation, to try to prevent this from coming out. sextape. His presence is a bit inexplicable, “explained Maître Antoine Vey, Karim Benzema’s lawyer, on BFMTV. The forward is represented at the trial by his lawyer.
“The forward is kept informed of the process. He claimed a professional reason (for not going to trial). He could have asked for a remission of this judgment in view of his obligations, but the court wanted this debate to take place. During the entire judicial investigation, requests had been made to be able to be confronted with Mathieu Valbuena, these requests were systematically rejected for not contributing anything since we have two different feelings. Today the trial is taking place and he remains informed, “explains Benzema’s lawyer. The sentence of the case could be known on Friday. Besides Benzema, there are four other defendants.