Defense Karim Benzema, indicted in the affair of blackmail "sex tape" exercised his Bleus teammate Mathieu Valbuena, asks the court confrontation between the two footballers, she said Tuesday AFP.
"We demand this confrontation," said without further comment one of the lawyers of Benzema, Alain Jakubowicz, confirming a report in Le Parisien newspaper.
Once the application is formally filed, it will be up to the judge Boutard Nathalie, who investigated the case in Versailles, to decide whether and how such a confrontation.
Benzema, center forward of Real Madrid, was indicted for attempted blackmail of complicity and participation in a criminal conspiracy, facts liable to five years imprisonment.
Above all, his judicial forbidden to date to contact Valbuena, leaving open a big doubt about its presence in 2016 in the Blues for Euro organized in France (June 10 July 10).
The French Football Federation, civil party in this matter, should take a position on the case at a Benzema its president Christmas press conference Graët Thursday, two days before the draw for the Euro-2016 will determine the opponents of the Blues in the group stage.
After each presentation their story to the judge and pending this possible confrontation, both players shared their view of the case in the media.
In an interview in Le Monde in late November, Valbuena had charged Benzema, ensuring being encouraged by the Spaniard to meet his blackmailers: "Encourage, it means" He'll have you pay "Indirectly.".
"I am not guilty," defended Benzema last week on TF1: "I spoke with the heart with Mathieu Valbuena (...) When I hear about blackmail, we asked money, it drives me crazy. I did not need money. "
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