Karim Benzema has been sentenced to one year in prison for the ‘Valbuena case’

Karim Benzema was sentenced this Wednesday to one year in prison exempt from compliance for complicity in the blackmail in 2015 with a sex video of his former France teammate Mathieu Valbuena, a sentence that he will appeal when he is considered innocent.

The case that has clouded the player’s life does not give him rest and stalks him again, when he goes through a great sporting moment, become the star of Real Madrid, rehabilitated in the French team and as one of the favorites to win the Ballon. Gold to be delivered next Monday.

Benzema, who tonight will play an important Champions League duel in Moldova, did not go to Versailles to hear the verdict of the well-known “Valbuena case”, the blackmail with a video of sexual content to the then Lyon player orchestrated by four individuals who swarmed in the environment of the players.

In this way, the white striker did not hear the voice of the president of the court sentence him to one year in prison exempt from compliance, two months more than what the Prosecutor’s Office had requested against him at the end of the three days of the process in which, claiming sports obligations, Benzema did not attend either.

It was the lightest penalty, since the footballer was the only one on whom only the accusation of complicity weighed, but also the one that was accompanied by a higher fine, 75 thousand euros, given his economic solvency in contrast to that of the rest of the the damned.

Benzema will also have to compensate Valbuena with 80 thousand euros, to whom the court recognized high non-pecuniary damage, since that case affected him personally, in his relationships with his wife, and professionally, since he never again dressed in the same selection.

“He has been convicted without evidence, the sentence does not correspond to the reality of the facts”, said his lawyer, Sylvain Cormier, convinced of his acquittal on appeal.

His other lawyer, Antoine Vey, acknowledged that his absence during the oral hearing could harm the footballer and pointed out that in the appeal process he will be present to “clarify the facts” and get rid of this ghost that has haunted him for years. .

“Benzema will come on appeal to explain himself and the facts will be clarified”, said Antoine Vey, who considered the sentence “unfair”, while ensuring that the attacker has been informed of the same at the Real Madrid concentration in Moldova to play tonight a key duel of the Champions League.