Karim Benzema is not only active on a football pitch. The center forward of the Blues and Real Madrid has filed a complaint for public defamation against the far-right activist Damien Rieu, indicates this Thursday Le Parisien. In the target of the 34-year-old attacker, two publications still online dating from October 23, 2020 and November 22, 2020 on Twitter, a social network where Rieu is very active.
In the first, the legislative candidate in Menton (Alpes-Maritimes) for the party of Eric Zemmour Reconquest! shared a photo of Benzema with Meaux imam Nourdine Mamoune. In the secondhe compared the gesture of the footballer with the index finger in the air as a sign of faith to that of jihadists.
The former RN candidate for the departmental in Péronne, in the Somme, is summoned on May 23 to the Lyon court. Joined by The ParisianDamien Lefèvre (his real name) considers that Benzema’s approach is “a classic procedure for intimidating”.