PARIS — Karim Benzema, a star striker for Actual Madrid, was discovered responsible by a French court docket on Wednesday on prices that he was a part of an try to blackmail a fellow participant in a case involving a intercourse tape, a scandal that noticed Benzema excluded from France’s nationwide soccer group for greater than 5 years.
Benzema, 33, was given a one-year suspended jail sentence and a tremendous of 75,000 euros, or about $84,000.
Benzema had been accused of serving to 4 different males blackmail Mathieu Valbuena, a teammate within the France squad, over an intimate video that had been taken from Valbuena’s cell phone.
Benzema has at all times denied the accusations. He was getting ready for Actual Madrid’s Champions League match in a while Wednesday towards Sheriff Tiraspol and didn’t attend court docket for the choice.
