"Sextape" trial: Valbuena confesses to having "feared" for his career

"Frightened", "upset", "in danger": on the first day of the trial of the "sextape affair", Mathieu Valbuena described at length how he had welcomed the blackmail attempt of which he claims to have been the victim, in the absence of the main defendant Karim Benzema. "We've had this case for six years, almost everyone is there, Karim is missing, it's a shame", regretted Mathieu Valbuena in front of the press, before talking at the bar of the Versailles Criminal Court their famous conversation of October 6, 2015 at the training center of the French football team in Clairefontaine. That evening, the two players exchanged for less than half an hour in the room of the Real Madrid striker. The plaintiff said he came out of this conversation "frightened" and "upset". Karim Benzema, who had been commissioned by an intermediary of the alleged blackmailers, was "insistent on making me meet someone", specifies Mathieu Valbuena, 37 years old. His teammate was not aggressive and made no mention of money, he acknowledges, but adds that "when you solve a problem like that (...) it's not in exchange for football tickets".

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