Mathieu Valbuena and Karim Benzema in training during the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. – David Vincent / AP / SIPA

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Karim Benzema, indicted Thursday for complicity in an attempt to blackmail the “sex tape” against teammate Blues Mathieu Valbuena, advised the latter “not to let it go and not pay” , said his lawyer Sylvain Cormier to AFP. This is in essence the statements allegedly made by the Blues striker October 5 during a conversation with Mathieu Valbuena at Clairefontaine training center, according to the lawyer.

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According to a source close to the case, the Real Madrid player has certainly discussed this video with Mathieu Valbuena, but wanted to “give back to his friend,” without thinking that was wrong. But, according to this source, Benzema was also reported, in a telephone conversation, his intervention with Valbuena, explaining that he was certain that his teammate was going to give in to blackmail. – Version firmly rejected by the defense Benzema

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Me Cormier on the contrary argued the transcript of a telephone conversation of 6 October between Benzema and his friend of Children in contact with the three blackmailers, and during which the footballer claims to have advised Valbuena to ignore “buzz”. “I told him I was a fuck buzz … If it’s for the buzz and you have warned your family, and they do not care … then lets out, I have him said, “would have said Benzema plays according to extracts quoted by the Obs . What the childhood friend replies, “Well yeah … Even I would have told him that. We we’re here to fix it [Valbuena]. If he will not … he démerde with these piranhas “

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The lawyer denounced the leaks in the press “PV truncated” involving Benzema, “indicted before that? it has been proceeded to hear the victim of that famous conversation of October 5 “. The three alleged blackmailers, now in custody, had contacted a childhood friend of the brothers Benzema also jailed Thursday in order to use the player in their extortion business.