French footballer Karim Benzema was held for addressing Wednesday regarding charged extortion over a sex tape highlighting buddy Mathieu Valbuena, a source near the test said.
The Real Madrid and France star landed with a hood pulled over his head at the police headquarters in Versailles, close Paris, early Wednesday and was put in confinement, the neighborhood prosecutor affirmed.
Examiners are attempting decide the degree of Benzema's contribution in a months-in length endeavor to coerce cash from kindred French worldwide Valbuena after a sex tape discovered its way under the control of suspected blackmailers.
As per the source, Benzema specified the close video to Valbuena when the French group met for preparing close Paris in right on time October, in front of matches against Armenia and Denmark.
The star striker took in of the video from a companion of his sibling in Lyon who had been reached by the suspected blackmailers with a perspective to including Benzema in their plan, the source included.
Police are looking to figure out if Benzema was simply teasing Valbuena when he specified the tape, or attempting to make him pay the gathering of suspected blackmailers, who were charged and set in confinement last month.
It is not the first run through the French striker has been involved in a police examination.
In 2009, he and partner Franck Ribery were blamed for laying down with an under-age prostitute, Zahia Dehar.
Both men were at long last cleared of wrongdoing five years after the fact, by which time Dehar had turned into an unscripted television star and form fashioner.
The coercion case started in June, when Valbuena held up a grumbling with police in the wake of being telephoned by an obscure individual who said he had the sex tape.
The guest did not indicate an aggregate of cash but rather said they ought to go to a course of action.
Police then assumed control, acting like Valbuena's business partner in later calls with the blackmailers, who debilitated to discharge the video in front of the 2016 European Championship, which France is facilitating.
The examination drove them to three men, including one who was a nearby individual from Valbuena's escort and who had direct access to the footballer's telephone containing the sex tape.
Two of the gathering are likewise said to have binds to Djibril Cisse, another French global and a previous buddy of Valbuena at Marseilles, and effectively made him pay up for a sex tape in 2008.
The gathering utilized Cisse to confirm the sex tape, the legal source said, driving him to caution Valbuena that a video was circling.
Cisse was confined for addressing a month ago however was immediately discharged without charge.
In an offer to accelerate the transactions, the blackmailers reached the companion of Benzema's sibling in Lyon, a man definitely known not.
The companion was confined in connection to the coercion case on Monday and was because of show up in the witness of a judge later Wednesday in Lyon.
Coercion conveys a potential jail sentence of five years.
Benzema, 27, is one of Real Madrid's star players close by Cristiano Ronaldo and Gareth Bale. He began his profession at Lyon, the club Valbuela joined this mid year.
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