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Added on the 20/10/2021 12:27:10 - Copyright : France 24 EN
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
French striker Karim Benzema is in hot water again as he's being investigated in relation to money laundering case in France.
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.
Press and spectators gather outside the Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse in New York as the much-anticipated sex crimes trial of Ghislaine Maxwell, the British socialite charged with grooming underage girls for late financier Jeffrey Epstein, is set to begin before a packed federal courthouse. 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 forward Karim Benzema goes on trial in France accused of complicity in the attempted blackmail of former international teammate Mathieu Valbuena, a case known as the "sextape affair". Benzema, 33, is suspected of helping a group of alleged blackmailers approach Valbuena in an attempt to extort money. Four other men are also on trial. IMAGES