Eric Zemmour’s comments date back to October 19, 2023, in the show Telematin on France 2. The president of Reconquête! believed, then, that Karim Benzema was in the French team “by accident”, with “money and sporting results” as motivation. The former columnist of the show We are not in bed had also made a link between the former Real Madrid player and the assassins of professors Samuel Paty and Dominique Bernard.
“What I know is that he is a Muslim who wants to apply Sharia law and that Sharia law provides for jihad and that jihad means killing Dominique Bernard, it means killing Samuel Paty,” Zemmour said. All these people think that Sharia law is a divine law and that it is binding on them. » Faced with these accusations, Benzema and his lawyer filed a complaint on Friday with the Paris judicial court, announced RMC Sports and RTL.
According to RTL, who was able to consult the complaint, four defamatory passages are denounced in the complaint filed by the player trained in Lyon, who wore the jersey of the France team 97 times. If this complaint is deemed admissible, Eric Zemmour faces one year in prison and a fine of 45,000 euros. On Tuesday, KB9 had already filed a defamation complaint against Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin, who claimed that the attacker had links with the Muslim Brotherhood.