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Added on the 24/11/2021 10:17:26 - Copyright : Euronews EN
After only recently getting out of police custody for driving twice while disqualified, football star Benzema has landed himself in police hands again after a spot of blackmail.
Mayor of Saint-Etienne, Gael Perdriau, mired in a case of political blackmail involving a sex tape that has shaken his city since September 2022, is placed in custody by the judicial police of Lyon. The elected official was summoned at the same time as his former private secretary Pierre Gauttieri, his former deputy Samy Kefi-Jerome and the latter's ex-partner, Gilles Rossary-Lenglet. IMAGES
The lawyers of Karim Benzema and Mustapha Zouaoui arrive at a court in Versailles, near Paris, to hear the verdict of a trial in which the Real Madrid star was charged with complicity in a bid to blackmail his former France team-mate Mathieu Valbuena with a sex tape. Karim Benzema was given a one-year suspended sentence. IMAGES
Bishops of the Catholic Church gather in Lourdes for their annual meeting, one month after a devastating report by an independent commission on widespread child sex abuse within the insitution. IMAGES
Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema announced the extension of his contract with Los Blancos until 2021 at a press conference in Madrid on Thursday. The 29-year old French international's new contract reportedly includes a $1.1 billion release clause. This astronomical release clause figure comes on the heels of Neymar's record 222 million euro departure from Barcelona, which was funded by French club PSG to trigger Neymar's release clause.
76-year-old Cardinal George Pell entered a plea of not guilty at Melbourne magistrates court on Wednesday in the first hearing of the case of multiple historical sexual abuse offences against him. Media, protesters and some supporters crowded outside the courthouse, with many waving different signs decrying sexual abuse allegedly committed by Catholic clergy. The magistrate ordered the prosecution serve a brief of evidence by September 8, 2017 and Pell to return ot the court for a committal mention on October 6.