The striker of the France team, Karim Benzema, “will not be excluded” from the selection in the event of “judicial sanction” in “the case of the sextape”, said the president of the French Football Federation Noël Le Graët at
Parisian.
“The coach will always remain responsible for his selection, and Benzema will not be excluded from a possible legal sanction,” said the boss of the FFF in this interview published in the Wednesday edition of the daily. Even if he receives a suspended prison sentence, he still has the option of appealing a conviction. So his summons, or not, in the coming months will not be linked to this judgment. “
Ten months suspended sentence required
“I will never intervene to say that we do not take it. Afterwards, it is for Didier (Deschamps) to consider whether, sportingly, he is fit to play with the Blues, ”added Noël Le Graët. Karim Benzema (33 years old, 92 caps), recalled to the France team last May after five years of absence in the blue jersey, will know on November 24 the decision of the Versailles court in the so-called “sextape” case.
In October, the prosecution requested ten months suspended prison sentence and a 75,000 euros fine against the Real Madrid striker, also absent from the trial, believing him to be an accomplice in a blackmail attempt against Mathieu Valbuena , ex-teammate in the France team threatened by the dissemination of an intimate video.