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From this Wednesday Karim Benzema will once again find himself in the spotlight of the news, but, unlike usual, it will not be for his sports performances on a lawn. The seventh correctional chamber of the judicial court of Versailles (Yvelines), will indeed judge the candidate for the Golden Ball, alongside four other people, for three days, in the so-called “sextape” case of Mathieu Valbuena. The 33-year-old Real Madrid player is accused of helping his co-defendants blackmail his former team-mate. He swears that he simply wanted to help the latter, that he nevertheless called “tarlouze” on the phone.
Should we distinguish the private person from his public artistic work? On this question, Bertrand Cantat is once again at the heart of the debate. The director of the Théâtre de la Colline on Tuesday refused to deprogram the one he asked to compose the music for his next show. The day before, Roselyne Bachelot had indicated on France Inter that she “regretted” this choice to work with the former member of the Noir Désir group, convicted of the murder of his partner Marie Trintignant in 2003. But for his part, Wajdi Mouawad recalled that he is a theater director and that its role is therefore not to “take the place of justice”.
Paris can say thank you to Lionel Messi, author of a double, but also and especially to Kylian Mbappé. With a goal, an assist and a penalty caused, the star of PSG achieved a great performance against RB Leipzig (3-2), Tuesday in the Champions League. In the absence of Neymar, injured in the adductors, he put on his superhero costume, when his teammates asked for his help, in a tricky match that he logically ended with the trophy for the best player. Without him, Paris, on its lawn, almost regretted its evening. PSG, led 2-1 at the hour mark, came very close to registering their first defeat of this edition of the C1.