After the attack, the counterattack. Karim Benzema’s lawyer announced this Thursday morning on RMC that he was going to file a complaint against Gérald Darmanin. The Minister of the Interior had accused Karim Benzema of being “in notorious links with the Muslim Brotherhood”, Monday evening on CNews.
“I am thinking about this law on false information,” said Mr. Hugues Viguier, the footballer’s advisor, in the program “Apolline Matin”. This is false information and you don’t do that lightly when you are Minister of the Interior. » “In the field of defamation, this is a difficulty,” he observed. The complaint will be filed “perhaps for public insult”. “It’s different from defamation, it’s said in a derogatory way,” explained Me Viguier.
The latter had already published a press release on Wednesday to protest against the accusations of Gérald Darmanin, which followed the publication on the inhabitants of Gaza victims once again of these unjust bombings which spare no women or children.”
“An intolerable exploitation of Karim Benzema”
“This is false!” Karim Benzema has never had the slightest relationship with this organization,” reacted Me Viguier, before returning to his client’s post. “It is, I want to believe, natural compassion in the face of what many today describe as war crimes being committed in Gaza, but which does not take away anything from the horror of the terrorist acts of October 7, which cannot be discussed. » “We are once again witnessing an intolerable exploitation of Karim Benzema and the “symbolic figure” that we like to attribute to him,” he also lamented.