French football star Benzema gets one-year suspended jail term
He was also fined 75,000 euros ($84,170)
France's Karim Benzema during the warm up before the match. Photo: Reuters
A Court in Versailles on Wednesday found France and Real Madrid forward Karim Benzema guilty of complicity in the attempted blackmail of former international team mate Mathieu Valbuena over a sex tape and sentenced him to a one-year suspended jail term.
He was also fined 75,000 euros ($84,170).
Benzema, who had denied any wrongdoing, was not in court. He is due to play for the Spanish club against Moldovan side Sheriff Tiraspol later in the day.
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Prosecutors had argued that Benzema had encouraged Valbuena to pay a suspected group of blackmailers in order to keep the sexually explicit tape out of the public eye.
($1 = 0.8910 euros)
