After he was accused of complicity in attempted extortion with a sexual tape in 2015 of his former national running mate Mateo Valbuena. The Public Prosecutor's Office in Versailles sentenced the French international Karim Benzema to 10 months' suspended imprisonment.

By defeat, he is one of five persons under trial for an extortion attempt in 2015, resulting in his exclusion from the National Election for five and a half years.

The prosecutor requested sentences ranging from 18 months' suspended to up to four years' imprisonment for the other four convicts.

It should be noted that the Cock Star, who played Tuesday evening in Ukraine with Real Madrid in the UEFA Champions League, was not present in Versailles on Wednesday and Thursday during the meetings.

Benzima is accused of inciting Valbuena to pay blackmailers who threatened to reveal an intimate video of the latter, and the former confessed his intervention at the request of a blackmailer. He has consistently denied the allegations, saying that he tried to help Valbuena out of the situation and not set him up.

Prosecutor Sigulin Marr was quoted before the Tribunal "Benzima is not a good person who tried to help. He worked to allow negotiators to reach their target and to tionists to obtain funds. " She also requested a fine of €75,000.

The two players have reportedly been disqualified from the Duke since late 2015 year before Benzema returned to the European Cup this summer, where the world champions were knocked out of the round of 16 in front of Switzerland, before almost ten days ago they secured the European Nations League title at the expense of Spain in the final led by Benzema. Valbuena was never called again.

"I was afraid for my sports career, for France," Valbuena said in his testimony on the opening of the trial Wednesday. I knew that if the video material was published, it would be complicated for me in the election, and that's what happened later. "

The Greek player of Olympiacos stated that his selection of the team amounted to the "holy grail of the players," and that he "could not have imagined" a colleague's involvement in a conspiracy against him.

The 37-year-old went on to state that Benzima was "adamant that I should meet someone," and admitted that his colleague was not aggressive and did not mention money, but that "when a problem like this is solved, it's not for tickets to a football game."

It is noted that the file is based in particular on an October 2015 discussion between the two men in Clarefontan, the Cock Party training centre, during which Benzema allegedly made it clear that he could identify Valbuena as a "trusted person," according to the latter at the hearing, to help him "deal" with any possible posting of the tape.

At the time, Benzimah alleged that he had intervened with Valbuena at the request of a childhood friend who had taken refuge in the blackmailers who had the tape.